SUNY Series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
資料類型
書籍=Book
使用語言
英文=English
附註項
Author Affiliation: Seattle University, USA.
摘要
Engages the global ecological crisis through a radical rethinking of what it means to inhabit the earth. Meditating on the work of American poet and environmental activist Gary Snyder and thirteenth-century Japanese Zen Master Eihei Dōgen, Jason M. Wirth draws out insights for understanding our relation to the planet's ongoing ecological crisis. He discusses what Dōgen calls "the Great Earth" and what Snyder calls "the Wild" as being comprised of the play of waters and mountains, emptiness and form, and then considers how these ideas can illuminate the spiritual and ethical dimensions of place. The book culminates in a discussion of earth democracy, a place-based sense of communion where all beings are interconnected and all beings matter. This radical rethinking of what it means to inhabit the earth will inspire lovers of Snyder's poetry, Zen practitioners, environmental philosophers, and anyone concerned about the global ecological crisis.
目次
Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Preface (Milarepa's Stone Tower) xiii Part I: The Great Earth 1 Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth 3 2 Geology (Poetic Word) 25 Part II: Turtle Island 3 Place (Land and Sea, Earth and Sky) 57 4 Bears (The Many Palaces of the Earth) 71 Part III: Earth Democracy 5 The Great Potlatch 87 6 Seeds of Earth Democracy 103 Notes 117 Bibliography 133 Index 143
