This volume, the third 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 opening up the conversation between Indigenous peoples and settlers.--$cProvided by publisher.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2017.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 179/.1
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781772123609 9781772122992
- LCCN
- GF21
- LCCN Item number
- L53 2017eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xv, 275 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00238182 (OCoLC)1011356954 (CaOOCEL)454244
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Front cover 1
- Title page 4
- Copyright page 5
- Epigraph 6
- Contents 8
- Introduction 10
- I 18
- 1 The Ethical Significance of the Human Relationship to Place 20
- 2 The Start of Real Thinking 34
- 3 On Scholem, Ruusbroec and Exegesis 40
- 4 Imagination, Psychagogy and Ontology 52
- 5 Mostly on Prayer 74
- 6 Seeing into Things 86
- II 108
- 7 A Mandelstamian Generation in China 110
- 8 Poetry as Pneumatic Force 124
- 9 Fresh Coherence 132
- 10 Turning the Soul Around 142
- 11 Negative Theological Meditations 160
- 12 Thinking the Rule of Benedict within Modernity 178
- 13 Thomas Merton’s Novitiate Talks on Cistercian Usages and Richard Kearney’s Theandrism 188
- III 202
- 14 A Poetics of Decolonization 204
- 15 Contemplative Experience; Autochthonous Practice 212
- 16 Faith and Land 226
- 17 Nothingness 236
- Epilogue 246
- Dramatis Personae 258
- Glossary 262
- Acknowledgements 266
- Reading 268
- Permissions 274
- Index 276
- About the Author 294
