{"product_id":"subjugate-the-earth-the-beginning-and-end-of-human-domination-of-nature-hardback-9781509561322","title":"Subjugate the Earth; The Beginning and End of Human Domination of Nature (Hardback) 9781509561322","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSubjugate the Earth\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Beginning and End of Human Domination of Nature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePhilipp Blom (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509561322, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 16 x 3.3 cm, 0.635 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With passion, erudition and insight, Philipp Blom has written a devastating history of the human illusion that we are, as Descartes said, the lords and masters of nature. Blom helps us to understand the climate crisis as the nemesis of this illusion, and he also guides us towards a new understanding of ourselves as creatures of the natural world, vitally dependent on our understanding and respect for nature. A moving and important work.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Ignatieff, author of \u003ci\u003eOn Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this rich, illuminating and thoroughly readable book, Philipp Blom, the German historian, reveals why Western Christian culture, in contrast to most other cultures, became obsessed about controlling nature and the environment. In just 500 years of human history, the West has wrought changes on the world which are unprecedented in their speed and extent. With an impressive range of Western and non-Western sources, Blom takes us on a dizzying journey of progress and destruction, blending philosophy with the history of science in a fast-paced narrative that brings us to the present day – an era that promises great prosperity and great destruction. A tour de force.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMisha Glenny, author of \u003ci\u003eMcMafia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Without sacrificing any sense of the contingencies that have shaped human history over centuries, this brilliant book tracks how the desire to dominate the Earth came to be an integral part of what European intellectuals later defined as modernity. Blom’s lucid and superb skills of exposition will speak powerfully to thinkers in and of the West. They will, additionally, hold up a mirror to the modernizing elites elsewhere who, for generations, have made this desire their own, a desire whose global career has now arguably created an existential crisis for humans. A book of global relevance.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDipesh Chakrabarty, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Climate of History in a Planetary Age\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“insightful, timely, and ambitious survey of the history of ideas related to humanity’s domination of nature.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSubjugate the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e traces the biography of a strange idea: the idea that human beings can subdue nature and rule over it. Born in Mesopotamia at the dawn of civilization, the idea of subjugating the Earth was included in the Bible, reached Europe through Christianity, and spread to the entire world through colonialism. The Enlightenment gave a scientific appearance to the ambition of controlling nature but did not change the ambition itself. Yet every birth presages a death. Only with the climate crisis has it become apparent that the subjugation of nature must be a self-defeating ambition, because it alters and deregulates natural systems which humans depend on for their survival, precisely because they are part of nature and not separate from it. Subjugating the Earth is an idea that is dying around us.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe polycrisis threatening to engulf humanity is inextricably linked to how humans see themselves and their relationship with nature. Based on developments in the natural sciences, a new understanding of this relationship looks not at individual phenomena but at systems, connections and entanglements between humans and other manifestations of nature. Is it possible to build a new understanding of humanity in nature by turning the traditional vision of free, rational individuals on its head and seeing humans as fascinating, irrational and system-dependent beings within the vast system of nature?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterlacing historical episodes, individual life stories, works of art and scientific discoveries, \u003ci\u003eSubjugate the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of the rise and fall of an idea that has shaped our world, and weaves a rich tapestry that is as surprising as it is enriching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eUp into the Air\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: Buy Me a Cloud\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI    MYTH\u003cbr\u003eThe World on a Vase\u003cbr\u003eGilgamesh the Hero\u003cbr\u003eThe View from the Parapet\u003cbr\u003eThe Free Market of Offerings\u003cbr\u003eBefore the Flood\u003cbr\u003eIn Search of Lost Matriarchy\u003cbr\u003eIn Search of Presumed Religion\u003cbr\u003eThe Dancing God\u003cbr\u003eKing of the World, King of Assyria\u003cbr\u003e… and subjugate it\u003cbr\u003eLost in Translation?\u003cbr\u003eLook on My works!\u003cbr\u003eThe Triumph of Light over Darkness\u003cbr\u003eThe Map of Misreadings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII   LOGOS\u003cbr\u003eLandscape with the Fall of Icarus\u003cbr\u003eWhy Europe?\u003cbr\u003eTechnology and the Burden of Empire\u003cbr\u003eThe Justification Industry\u003cbr\u003eThe Age of Iron\u003cbr\u003eMonsieur Grat and His Master\u003cbr\u003e‘If only I could paint his spirit!’\u003cbr\u003eThe Canon and the Antichrist\u003cbr\u003eAn Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump\u003cbr\u003eThe Theology of Fish\u003cbr\u003eLisbon\u003cbr\u003eA Work of Nature\u003cbr\u003eVirtuous Terror\u003cbr\u003eCarte Blanche\u003cbr\u003eStuffed and Exhibited\u003cbr\u003eThe Silent Death of Saartjie Baartman\u003cbr\u003eHare Hunting\u003cbr\u003eModern Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII  COSMOS\u003cbr\u003eAgony\u003cbr\u003eThe One-Armed Lumberjack\u003cbr\u003eLiberal Lifelong Lies\u003cbr\u003eThe World as Clockwork\u003cbr\u003eAdmiration for Cannibals\u003cbr\u003eEntangled Life\u003cbr\u003eA Handful of Earth\u003cbr\u003eRisky Thinking\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20%5BHB%5D%22\"\u003eHB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52463014412568,"sku":"9781509561322","price":19.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509561322.jpg?v=1785545166","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/subjugate-the-earth-the-beginning-and-end-of-human-domination-of-nature-hardback-9781509561322","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}