Holdfast - At Home in the Natural World

Informationen zum Autor Kathleen Dean Moore is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University and co-founder and senior fellow of OSU's Spring Creek Project of Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word. She is the coeditor of the award-winning Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril and the author of Wild Comfort, Riverwalking --winner of a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award--and The Pine Island Paradox --winner of the Oregon Book Award. Klappentext With the finely honed skills of an essayist, the heightened sensibility of a naturalist, and the carefully reasoned mind of a philosopher, Kathleen Dean Moore examines our connections to what we hold most dear. In a quest for the metaphorical holdfast-the structures at the end of seaweed strands that attach to rocks with a grip that even ocean gales cannot rend-Moore seeks to understand that which affixes her firmly to family and place.In twenty-one elegant, probing essays, she meditates on connection and separation: the sense of brotherhood fostered by communal wolf howls; the inevitability of losing our children to their own lives; her own mischievousness as she takes candy from her unwitting students on Halloween; the sublimity of life and longing in the creatures of the sea; her agonizing decision when facing her father's death. She is joyous, playful, and mournful. As Moore travels geographically-from the Oregon shores to Alaska-and philosophically, she leaves no doubt of her virtuosity and range. Zusammenfassung Naturalist and philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore meditates on connection and separation in these twenty-one elegant! probing essays. Using the metaphor of holdfasts the structures that attach seaweed to rocks with a grip strong enough to withstand winter gales she examines our connections to our own bedrock.

Product details

• Authors: Assistant Professor of Philosophy Kathleen Dean (Oregon State University) Moore, Kathleen Dean Moore, Kathleen Dean (Oregon State University) Moore
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2013
• EAN: 9780870717086
• ISBN: 978-0-87071-708-6
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Northwest Reprints Book; Northwest Reprints Book
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Philosophie, Die Natur: Sachbuch, NATURE / Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, Literature - Classics / Criticism