The Larger Conversation : Contemplation and Place

Lilburn, Tim

University of Alberta Press（2017/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 296 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781772122992
• DDC分類 814.54

Full Description

This volume, the final in Tim Lilburn's decades-long meditation on philosophy and environmental consequences, traces a relationship between mystic traditions and the political world. Struck by the realization that he did not know how to be where he found himself, Lilburn embarked on a personal attempt at decolonization, seeking to uncover what is wrong within Canadian culture and to locate a possible path to recovery. He proposes a new epistemology leading to an ecologically responsible and spiritually acute relationship between settler Canadians, Indigenous peoples, and the land we inhabit. The Larger Conversation is a bold statement: a vital text for readers of environmental philosophy and for anyone interested in building toward conversation between Indigenous peoples and settlers.

Contents

Introduction

I
1 The Ethical Significance of the Human Relationship to Place
2 The Start of Real Thinking
3 On Scholem, Ruusbroec and Exegesis
4 Imagination, Psychagogy and Ontology
5 Mostly on Prayer
6 Seeing into Things: Suhrawardi and Mandelstam

II
7 A Mandelstamian Generation in China
8 Poetry as Pneumatic Force
9 Fresh Coherence
10 Turning the Soul Around: The Ascetical Practice of Philosophy in the Republic
11 Negative Theological Meditations: Apophasis and Its Politics
12 Thinking the Rule of Benedict within Modernity
13 Thomas Merton's Novitiate Talks on Cistercian Usages and Richard Kearney's Theandrism

III
14 A Poetics of Decolonization
15 Contemplative Experience; Autochthonous Practice
16 Faith and Land
17 Nothingness

Epilogue: At the Foot of WMIEŦEN

Dramatis Personae
Glossary
Acknowledgements
Reading
Permissions
Index