ISBN-10: 0813527902
ISBN-13: 9780813527901
In contemporary years students have all started to query the cultural values underlying our view of Nature. Kevin Dann contributes to this debate by means of juxtaposing considerably diversified “Arcadian” experiments based by way of Manhattanites looking cultural renewal via touch with the wildlife.
Dann focuses first on projects performed through the yankee Museum of traditional background and the Eugenics list workplace from 1910 to 1940 inside Harriman nation Park within the Ramapo Mountains. He argues that those varied expressions of the early “back-to-nature” circulate are united by means of their organic materialism, or “Naturalism,” which turned vital to the preferred tradition of proficient metropolitan americans within the early 20th century.
He then compares this job to the modern efforts at within reach Threefold Farm, the place anthroposophists--followers of Rudolf Steiner's“spiritual science”--developed a application of ordinary medical learn and schooling that without delay adversarial Darwinian motives of typical heritage, social Darwinian perspectives of human society, and reductionist medical equipment. via hard clinical “fact” with religious medical descriptions of supersensible phenomena, the Threefold Farm initiative provided americans a brand new gospel of nature.
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Across the Great Border Fault: The Naturalist Myth in America
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