[RESEÑA] Reviving The Death of Nature: Female presences in the configuration of the Early Modern cosmos (Not Even Past)

Gea, Anselm Feuerbach (1875).

Publicado originalmente en la página web de historia pública "Not Even Past", en el IHS Climate in Context – Book Roundtable on The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution, Carolyn Merchant (1980)

Forty years ago, Carolyn Merchant published The Death of Nature which aimed to critically reassess the Scientific Revolution by considering changes in the conceptions of nature in Renaissance Europe. Merchant embraced an ecofeminist perspective, associating images of nature with feminine allegories and metaphors that were popular in intellectual spheres. She linked the consolidation of mercantilist capitalism to environmental transformations and scientific reflections of an expanded canon of thinkers (including women, utopians, and magicians)...

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