The Larger Conversation
Contemplation and Place
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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.
About Tim Lilburn
With The Larger Conversation, Tim Lilburn completes a manifesto on poetics, eros, philosophy, and enviro-politics that began with the classic Living in the World As If It Were Home (Cormorant Books). A Governor General’s Award winner and the first Canadian to win the European Medal of Poetry and Art, he lives and teaches in Victoria, British Columbia.
Table of Contents
Front cover | 1 |
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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 |
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- Publisher
- The University of Alberta Press
- Category
- Epistemology
- Published
- November 2017
- Pages
- 224
- Chapters
- 34
- Language
- English
- ISBN Paper
- 9781772122992
- ISBN PDF
- 9781772123609