Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth - Reading Gary Snyder and Dogen in an Age of Ecological Crisis

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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Jason M. Wirth is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University. He is the author of Schelling's Practice of the Wild: Time, Art, Imagination and The Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His Time; the translator of The Ages of the World by F. W. J. Schelling; and the coeditor (with Patrick Burke) of The Barbarian Principle: Merleau-Ponty, Schelling, and the Question of Nature, all published by SUNY Press.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jason M Wirth, Jason M. Wirth, Wirth Jason M.
• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 02.01.2018
• EAN: 9781438465425
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-6542-5
• Seiten: 174
• Serien: SUNY Series in Environmental P; SUNY Series in Environmental P; Suny Environmental Philosophy; SUNY series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Schule und Lernen > Unterrichtsvorbereitung > Berufliche Bildung; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, NATURE / Ecology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, RELIGION / Buddhism / General, PHILOSOPHY / Zen, Buddhism, Applied ecology, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Zen Buddhism, Conservation of the environment, Literary studies: poetry and poets, East Asian and Indian philosophy