Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, authorRoutledge, publisher2018-12-032018-12-032019Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, Leading and Misleading Metaphors: From Organism to Anthropocene. Worthy, Kenneth, Elizabeth Allison, and Whitney A. Bauman, eds., After the Death of Nature: Carolyn Merchant and the Future of Human-Nature Relations, 103-116. New York and London: Routledge, 2019.https://hdl.handle.net/10217/192937Includes bibliographical references.Carolyn Merchant is celebrated for her insights into how the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment featured the control of nature, bringing "the death of nature." A once nurturing mother Earth, became inert and mechanical, manipulated by industry and agriculture. Strident recent environmentalists have been celebrating our entering the Anthropocene Epoch, boldly embracing perpetual enlargement of the bounds of the human empire. We are urged to become planetary managers, geo-engineers, rebuilding the Earth better to serve human needs. Is this a return to the death of nature? This analysis revisits Carolyn Merchant in the prospect of an Anthropocene Epoch.For a related media presentation go to https://hdl.handle.net/10217/188445.born digitalchapters (layout features)eng©2019 Routledge. The author reserves the right to place a digital copy in the Colorado State University Library Repository.Copyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.Merchant, CarolynMother Earthdeath of naturemechanismplanetary management geo-engineeringAnthropocene EpochText