Title:
The larger conversation : contemplation and place
Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Date:
2017
Publication Information:
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press, 2017
©2017
Physical Description:
xv, 275 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781772122992
Abstract:
"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."--Publisher.
Contents:
Introduction -- I. The ethical significance of the human relationship to place; The start of real thinking; On Scholem, Ruusbroec and Exegesis; Imagination, psychagogy and ontology; Mostly on prayer; Seeing into things: Suhrawardi and Mandelstam -- II. A Mandelstamian generation in China; Poetry as pneumatic force; Fresh coherence; Turning the soul around: the ascetical practice of philosophy in the republic; Negative theological meditations: apophasis and its politics; Thinking the Rule of Benedict within modernity; Thomas Merton's novitiate talks on cistercian usages and Richard Kearney's theandrism -- III. Poetics of decolonization; Contemplative experience, autochthonous practice ; Faith and land; Nothingness -- Epilogue: at the foot of WMieten -- Dramatis Personae -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- Reading -- Permissions -- Index.
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Language:
English
