Wild Mind, Wild Earth

Our Place in the Sixth Extinction

Wild Mind, Wild Earth
David Hinton
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Paperback
h216 x 140mm - 128pg
8 Nov 2022 US
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9781645471479
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Exploring 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.
Praise for Wild Mind, Wild Earth "Provocative and original, this one' s worth tracking down. "-Publishers Weekly Praise for David Hinton' s 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)
DAVID HINTON has published numerous books of poetry and essays, and many translations of ancient Chinese poetry and philosophy-all informed by an abiding interest in deep ecological thinking. This widely-acclaimed work has earned Hinton a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous fellowships from NEA and NEH, and both of the major awards given for poetry translation in the United States- the Landon Translation Award (Academy of American Poets) and the PEN American Translation Award. Most recently, Hinton received a lifetime achievement award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781645471479
Published: 8 Nov 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Shambhala Publications Inc
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 128

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