Eco-Alchemy (eBook)

Anthroposophy and the History and Future of Environmentalism

Dan McKanan (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
312 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96438-9 (ISBN)

Infos

For nearly a century, the worldwide anthroposophical movement has been a catalyst for environmental activism, helping to bring to life many modern ecological practices such as organic farming, community-supported agriculture, and green banking. Yet the spiritual practice of anthroposophy remains unknown to most environmentalists. A historical and ethnographic study of the environmental movement, Eco-Alchemyuncovers for the first time the profound influences of anthroposophy and its founder, Rudolf Steiner, whose holistic worldview, rooted in esoteric spirituality, inspired the movement. Dan McKanan shows that environmentalism is itself a complex ecosystem and that it would not be as diverse or as transformative without the contributions of anthroposophy.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Ecology of Environmentalism

Seed
Rudolf Steiner’s Holistic Vision

Roots
Biodynamics and the Origins of Organic Agriculture

Branches
Anthroposophical Initiatives and the Growing Environmental Movement

Flowers
New Economies for Environmentalism

Fruit
The Broader Ecology of Camphill

Ecology
The Boundaries of Anthroposophy

Evolution
Anthroposophy’s Gifts to the Environmental Movement

Notes
Index

Produkt-Details

• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Schlagworte: activism • Activist • Agriculture • American History • Anthroposophy • Buy local • Ecological • Ecology • ecosystem • Environment • environmental activist • Environmentalism • environmental movement • ethnographic • ethnography • farming • Go Green • Green Banking • Historical • holistic • local produce • Organic Farming • Rudolf Steiner • Small Business • small farming • Spiritual • Spirituality
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96438-1 / 0520964381
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96438-9 / 9780520964389