"This book expands on and further develops the ideas first launched in Norske naturmytologier : fra Edda til økofilosofi"--Verso title page. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
The architecture of utopia -- The anti-romantic Romantics: nature, culture and ideology in nineteenth-century Norway -- "Ecohumanism" -- The Norwegian pastoral enlightenment: the "idiocy of rural life" revisited -- From the berserkers to the peace brokers -- Askeladden, or the Norwegian "Tao" -- The great good place: inside and outside in Ibsen and Munch -- Nature as sacrum: the case of Vigeland -- The ecological gothic of Knut Hamsun -- The hazards of goodness: the legacy of Bjørnson and Nansen -- Arne Næss's ecological utopia.
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