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Auteur(s) : Wohlpart, James (1964-....)
Titre(s) : Walking in the land of many gods [Texte imprimé] : remembering sacred reason in contemporary environmental literature / A. James Wohlpart
Publication : Athens : University of Georgia press, 2013
Description matérielle : xii, 203 pages ; 23 cm
Comprend : A mind of sky and thunder and sun ; Remembering deep space and deep time: Heidegger,
the Pleistocene, and Native American philosophy ; Restor(y)ing the self: ecological
restoration in Janisse Ray's Ecology of a cracker childhood ; The long migration
home: listening to birds in Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge: an unnatural history
of family and place ; Healing the severed trust: Linda Hogan's Dwellings: a spiritual
history of the living world as native ceremony ; Walking in the land of many gods:
remembering the mysterious plenitude of Earth.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-200) and index
"How are we placed on Earth? What is our relationship to the world around us, and
how does our thinking affect the way we relate to the world? We are entrapped, says
A. James Wohlpart, by what Martin Heidegger calls "enframing," a worldview that considers
all objects as mere resources for our use. Walking in the Land of Many Gods envisions
a new way of thinking about the world, one grounded in a moral imagination reconnected
to Earth. Insightful readings of three contemporary classics of nature writing--Janisse
Ray's Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge: An Unnatural
History of Family and Place, and Linda Hogan's Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the
Living World--are at the heart of Wohlpart's endeavor. Powerful and affecting works
like these reveal a pathway to a deeper remembering, one that reconnects us with the
primal forces of creation and acknowledges the sacredness of the world. We have forgotten
that the world around us is rich and fertile and generative, says Wohlpart. His exploration
of these literary works, based on deep anthropology and Native American philosophy,
opens a pathway into a new way of thinking called sacred reason. Founded on interdependence
and interrelationship, and on care and compassion, sacred reason reminds us that divinity
exists around us at all times. We are invited to walk, once again, in a land filled
with many gods."
Sujet(s) : Écocritique
Écologie humaine -- Dans la littérature
Écologie -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780820345239 (hardcover) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0820345237 (hardcover) (alk. paper).
- ISBN 9780820345246 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0820345245 (pbk.) (alk. paper)
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