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Originally published in German as Die Unterwerfung: Anfang und ende der menschlichen Herrschaft uber die Natur (München: Carl Hanser Verlag, 2022).
List of contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Up into the Air
Prologue: Buy Me a Cloud
I MYTH
The World on a Vase
Gilgamesh the Hero
The View from the Parapet
The Free Market of Offerings
Before the Flood
In Search of Lost Matriarchy
In Search of Presumed Religion
The Dancing God
King of the World, King of Assyria
... and subjugate it
Lost in Translation?
Look on My works!
The Triumph of Light over Darkness
The Map of Misreadings
II LOGOS
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Why Europe?
Technology and the Burden of Empire
The Justification Industry
The Age of Iron
Monsieur Grat and His Master
'If only I could paint his spirit!'
The Canon and the Antichrist
An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump
The Theology of Fish
Lisbon
A Work of Nature
Virtuous Terror
Carte Blanche
Stuffed and Exhibited
The Silent Death of Saartjie Baartman
Hare Hunting
Modern Times
III COSMOS
Agony
The One-Armed Lumberjack
Liberal Lifelong Lies
The World as Clockwork
Admiration for Cannibals
Entangled Life
A Handful of Earth
Risky Thinking
Notes
Index
About the author
Philipp Blom is a historian and writer who lives in Vienna. He is the author of numerous works including
Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present.
