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Wild Mind, Wild Earth : Our Place in the Sixth Extinction by David Hinton (2022, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherShambhala Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-101645471470

ISBN-139781645471479

eBay Product ID (ePID)7057290245

Product Key Features

Book TitleWild Mind, Wild Earth : Our Place in the Sixth Extinction

Number of Pages144 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2022

TopicSubjects & Themes / Nature, Buddhism / Zen (See Also Philosophy / Zen)

GenreLiterary Criticism, Religion, Poetry

AuthorDavid Hinton

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight7 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2022-011351

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsPraise for David Hinton's Previous Environmental Writing: "A gorgeous book, a book of power."--Bill McKibben (on Hunger Mountain ) "One of the best books about mountains ever written."--NPR (on Hunger Mountain ) "A pellucid gem of a book--I couldn't put it down."--David Abram (on Existence: A Story ) "It is an uncanny journey, essential for all."--Gretel Ehrlich (on Existence: A Story ) "Hinton is after . . . depth and boundlessness."-- The New York Review of Books (on Awakened Cosmos )

Dewey Decimal809.9336

SynopsisExploring the confluence of ancient Chinese spirituality and modern Western environmental thought, Wild Mind, Wild Earth reveals the unrecognized kinship of mind and nature that must be reanimated if we are to end our destruction of the planet. Earth is embroiled in its sixth major extinction event-this time caused not by asteroids or volcanos, but by us. At bottom, preventing this sixth extinction is a spiritual/philosophical problem, for it is the assumptions defining us and our relation to earth that are driving the devastation. Those assumptions insist on a fundamental separation of human and earth that devalues earth and enables our exploitative relation to it. In Wild Mind, Wild Earth , David Hinton explores modes of seeing and being that could save the planet by reestablishing a deep kinship between human and earth- the insights of primal cultures and the Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism of ancient China. He also shows how these insights have become well-established in the West over the last two hundred years, through the work of poets and philosophers and scientists. This offers marvelous hope and beauty-but like so many of us, Hinton recognizes the sixth extinction is now an inexorable and perhaps unstoppable tragedy. And he reveals how those primal/Zen insights enable us to inhabit even the unfurling catastrophe as a profound kind of liberation. Wild Mind, Wild Earth is a remarkable and revitalizing journey.

LC Classification NumberPN98.E36H56 2022