Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth : Reading Gary Snyder and Dōgen in an Age of Ecological Crisis (Suny series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics)

Wirth, Jason M.

State University of New York Press（2017/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 174 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781438465432
• DDC分類 811.54

Full Description

Engages the global ecological crisis through a radical rethinking of what it means to inhabit the earth.

FINALIST for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Philosophy category

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.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Preface (Milarepa's Stone Tower)

Part I: The Great Earth

1. Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth

2. Geology (Poetic Word)

Part II: Turtle Island

3. Place (Land and Sea, Earth and Sky)

4. Bears (The Many Palaces of the Earth)

Part III. Earth Democracy

5. The Great Potlatch

6. Seeds of Earth Democracy

Notes
Bibliography
Index