By A. James Wohlpart
ISBN-10: 0820345237
ISBN-13: 9780820345239
ISBN-10: 0820345245
ISBN-13: 9780820345246
How are we put on Earth? what's our dating to the area round us, and the way does our pondering impact the best way we relate to the realm? we're entrapped, says A. James Wohlpart, through what Martin Heidegger calls "enframing," a worldview that considers all items as mere assets for our use. Walking within the Land of Many Gods envisions a brand new state of mind in regards to the international, one grounded in an ethical mind's eye reconnected to Earth.
Insightful readings of 3 modern classics of nature writing—Janisse Ray's Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge: An Unnatural heritage of kin and Place, and Linda Hogan's Dwellings: a religious heritage of the dwelling World—are on the middle of Wohlpart's activity. strong and affecting works like those display a pathway to a deeper remembering, one who reconnects us with the primal forces of production and recognizes the sacredness of the world.
We have forgotten that the realm round us is wealthy and fertile and generative, says Wohlpart. His exploration of those literary works, in response to deep anthropology and local American philosophy, opens a pathway right into a new frame of mind known as sacred cause. based on interdependence and interrelationship, and on care and compassion, sacred cause reminds us that divinity exists round us always. we're invited to stroll, once more, in a land choked with many gods.
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