Numinous Seditions

Interiority and Climate Change
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-77212-710-2
Verlag: University of Alberta Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 300 g

With Numinous Seditions, celebrated poet and essayist Tim Lilburn investigates inner dispositions that might help us bear the new sorrows of the climate crisis. The book draws from the West’s almost forgotten contemplative tradition in its Platonic, Islamic, Christian, and Zoharic forms. It also explores ideas from modern philosophers Jan Zwicky, Gillian Rose, Dorothy Day, and Simone Weil, and from contemporary poets Don Domanski, Philip Kevin Paul, Anne Szumigalski, and Roberto Harrison. Lilburn suggests that listening, noticing, reading, and stretching our imaginations are all part of an interior stance that can assist with the difficult tasks of forming deep relationships with the land, with Indigenous peoples, and with pedagogy itself. Numinous Seditions is for scholars and readers interested in poetry, environmental philosophy, and in the possibility of a contemplative politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lilburn, Tim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Umweltethik, Umweltphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface -

- New Sadness -

- Interiority and Climate Change -

- Contemplative Practices, Contemplative Pedagogies -

- Hoping for Something to Appear The Poetry of Don Domanski -

- Poetry’s Practice of Philosophy Anne Szumigalski -

- Reading William Chittick Reading Ibn ‘Arabi -

- Happy Incompetencies, the Self’s Other Routes -

- Poverty and the Doom of Acedia -

- Ontological Loneliness and the Balm of Metaphor -

- Two Readings on Snow, Two Readings on Sorrow -

- In the Time of Extreme Heat, In the Time of the Discovery of Unmarked Graves at the Site of Residential Schools -

- Numinous Seditions -

- Dream Coda -

- Glossary -

- Reading -

- Index -

Über Autor(innen)

Lilburn, Tim
Tim Lilburn has published twelve books of poetry, including Kill-site, Assiniboia, The Names, and Harmonia Mundi. His poetry has received the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award. Lilburn has produced three previous books of essays, each concerned with poetics, eros, philosophy and politics, especially environmentalism: Living in the World as if It Were Home (Saskatchewan Non-Fiction Book of the Year), Going Home, and The Larger Conversation. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2014. He lives in Victoria, BC, on the homelands of the W_SÁNEC, Songhees, and Esquimalt Nations.