Hudson River School “luminous” style paintings; Krech class discussion
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Announcements:
(1) Cronon next week; please start reading this weekend in addition to working on the writing assignment
(2) Writing assignment 2 is one of four handouts today; others are comments about assignment #1, critical response guidelines for completing assignment 2, and excerpts from Adrian Tanner’s review of Krech’s The Ecological Indian.
(3) Assignment 1 was returned at the end of class.
(4) Assignment 2 is important. Pay attention to the comments on the first assignment.
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I. Popular Romanticism Today, conclusion:
A. From last time:
Tuan writes:
"The unplanned and often careless use of land in China belongs, one hopes, to the past. The Communist government has made an immense effort to control erosion and to re-forest. . . . A visitor from New Zealand reported in 1960 that as seen from the air the new growths spread 'a mist of green' over the once bare hills of South China. For those who admire the old culture, it must again seem ironic that the 'mist of green' is no reflection of the traditional virtues of Taoism and Buddhism; on the contrary, it rests on their explicit denial" (248).
Tuan cites R. Murphey, 1967. "Man and Nature in China," Modern Asian Studies 1 (4): 313-33.
B. Conclusion
Ulrich Beck, Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. Translated by M. Ritter (London: Sage, 1992)
What “we are witnessing [is] not the end but the beginning of modernity—that is, of a modernity beyond its classical industrial design” [emph. orig.].
Beck writes:
“[T]he counter-modern scenario currently upsetting the world—new social movements and criticism of science, technology, and progress—does not stand in contradiction to modernity, but is rather an expression of modernization beyond [the model of] . . . industrial society” (Risk Society p. 11).
See also Catherine Albanese, Nature Religion in America: From the Algonkian Indians to the New Age (University of Chicago Pr., 1990) and
Meredith Veldman, Fantasy, the Bomb, and the Greening of Britain: Romantic Protest, 1945-1980 (Cambridge U. Pr., 1994).
II. Hudson River School, continued
III. Brief Class Discussion about Krech
IV. Handed back assignment #1 at 10:55
