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1 online resource (221 p.) |
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Earthscan Food and Agriculture Ser |
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Earthscan Food and Agriculture Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Illustrations -- About the author -- Foreword -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Glossary of selected Greek terms -- 1 Orientation: the challenge and the project -- A. About this book -- third in a series -- B. Cultural reform and "deep agroecology" -- C. Using the Homeric epics -- D. Structure and theme -- Notes -- 2 The Iliad, the Odyssey, agriculture, and climate change -- A. Culture: use it or lose it -- B. Iliad: a summary-reminder -- C. Odyssey: a summary-reminder |
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D. The crisis of agriculture -- E. The climate crisis -- Notes -- 3 Achilles: mênis, kleos, and aristeia -- A. The rage of Achilles -- B. The "embassy to Achilles" -- C. Rejecting a warrior system of values? -- D. The shame of Achilles -- E. Achilles in our day -- Notes -- 4 Agroecological husbandry: new roots for agriculture -- A. Perennial roots -- B. Why only now? -- C. Changing agriculture -- conceptual considerations -- D. Practical considerations -- progress and prospects -- E. Insights from the Iliad -- how to transform agriculture -- Notes |
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5 Homo sapiens nobilis: trustees for the athanatoi -- A. Athanatoi and thnêtoi -- pros and cons -- B. Humans, nobility, and responsibility -- C. The public trust doctrine and the common heritage of mankind principle -- D. Keystone species? ... Ecospheric trustees? -- Notes -- 6 Eco-states and anthro-states: new roots for sovereignty -- A. Beyond the Hobbesian view -- B. Competing and complementing loyalties -- C. Biomes, ecoregions, and eco-states -- new world maps for sovereignty -- D. Eco-state #8 and Eco-state #12 -- Is bioregionalism personal? -- Notes |
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7 Odysseus: mêtis, nostos, and polútropos -- A. Odysseus as polútropos and displaying mêtis -- B. Humanity as polútropos and displaying mêtis -- C. Eco-nostos -- D. Will Penelope wait? -- Notes -- 8 Gaia, gods, governance, and xenia: creating a new epic -- A. What is an epic? -- B. Gaia, gods, and xenia -- C. Did the League of Nations fail? -- D. A novel global institution and its participants -- Notes -- 9 Detour: Beyond the Greeks, beyond the West -- A. Reasons to look elsewhere for a motivating narrative -- B. Mesopotamia and the Epic of Gilgamesh |
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C. China's new "ecological civilization" and its traditional roots -- D. End of detour: a peculiar Homeric richness and a Western cultural obligation -- Notes -- 10 Moira: What is the (agroecological) fate of our godlike species? -- A. Moira explained -- B. Power to burn and power to build -- C. Adopting deep agroecology: our longest day of battle -- D. Realizing humanity's moira: our final journey home -- Notes -- Appendices -- Appendix #1: A "bare-bones brief" -- Global cultural reform for a natural-systems agriculture: building on the Homeric epics to de |
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Appendix #2: A "blended literature review" -- The larger landscape of intellectual and professional writings on the Homeric epics |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000286236 |
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1000286231 |
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