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Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth: Reading Gary Snyder and Dōgen in an Age of Ecological Crisis
Contributor(s): Wirth, Jason M. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1438465424     ISBN-13: 9781438465425
Publisher: State University of New York Press
OUR PRICE: $32.25  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
- Nature | Ecology
- Philosophy | Zen
Dewey: 811.54
Series: Suny Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 8.9" L (0.25 lbs) 174 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Buddhist
- Topical - Ecology
Features: Bibliography
 
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Publisher Description:
FINALIST for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Philosophy category

Meditating on the work of American poet and environmental activist Gary Snyder and thirteenth-century Japanese Zen Master Eihei Dōgen, Jason M. Wirth draws out insights for understanding our relation to the planet's ongoing ecological crisis. He discusses what Dōgen calls the Great Earth and what Snyder calls the Wild as being comprised of the play of waters and mountains, emptiness and form, and then considers how these ideas can illuminate the spiritual and ethical dimensions of place. The book culminates in a discussion of earth democracy, a place-based sense of communion where all beings are interconnected and all beings matter. This radical rethinking of what it means to inhabit the earth will inspire lovers of Snyder's poetry, Zen practitioners, environmental philosophers, and anyone concerned about the global ecological crisis.
 
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