The love of nature and the end of the world : the unspoken dimensions of environmental concern / Shierry Weber Nicholsen
- Bib ID:
- 12620
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Nicholsen, Shierry Weber
- Description:
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- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2002
- x, 216 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0262140764 (alkaline paper) (hc.)
- Summary:
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"The Love of Nature and the End of the World is a gathering of meditation and collages. Its evocations of our emotional attachment to the natural world and the emotional impact of the environmental deterioration are meant to encourage individual and collective reflection on a difficult dilemma. Nicholsen draws on work in environmental philosophy and ecopsychology; the writings of psychoanalytic thinkers such as Wilfred Bion, Donald Meltzer, and D.W. Winnicott; and ideas from Buddhist and Sufi traditions. She shows how our emotional responses to the vulnerabilities of the natural world range from intense caring and compassion, through grief and outrage, to diffuse depression. Individual chapters focus on silence and the process whereby we move from the unspoken to the spoken.
The love of nature, the "perceptual reciprocity" with the natural world to which we might mature, beauty in the human and natural realms, the psychological impact of the destruction of the natural world, and reflections on the future."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Many Silences
- 2. The Love of Nature and the Concern for Life
- 3. Tangling at the Roots of Being: Perception as Field and Reciprocity
- 4. What Beauty Can Tell Us: The Face of Nature
- 5. A Severe and Pervasive Apathy: Trauma, Destructiveness, and the End of the World
- 6. The Future and the Possible.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-207) and indexes.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2002
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