Numinous Seditions
Interiority and Climate Change
Categories: Philosophy, Literature & Language Studies, Environmental & Nature Studies, Climate Change, Literary Criticism, Poetry, Education
Publisher: University of Alberta Press Show Edition Details
Ebook (EPUB) : 9781772127249, 208 pages, February 2024
Ebook (PDF) : 9781772127256, 208 pages, February 2024
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Table of contents
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
Explores how poetry and the West’s contemplative tradition can help us bear the sorrows of climate change.
Description
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.
Reviews
"Among the book’s ample gifts are its refusal of confected hope and its hosting of a larger conversation. Here Ibn ‘Arabī brushes foreheads with Anne Szumigalski, Andrew Ahenakew’s polar bear shares the sky with the angel of pseudo-Dionysius. In contemplating shards of ancient wisdom, Lilburn seeks the grace needed to grieve the conflagration of the world." Warren Heiti, author of Attending: An Ethical Art
“The lucent essays gathered in Tim Liburn’s new book offer what they adumbrate: a ‘refugium for attentiveness,’ opening lines of earthbound thought, enriching our lexicon, and retrieving forgotten practices in order to cultivate a contemplative, compassionate, and creative modus vivendi in the midst of the unspeakable sorrow of ecological unravelling, climatic disruption, and the continuing legacies of imperialist violence. Amongst them is a meditation on lectio divina that might be taken as a guide for reading these essays themselves, many of them tending towards the fragmentary, punctuated with pauses, and all of them replete with invitations to see, feel, and imagine otherwise.” Kate Rigby, author of Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction
"Numinous Seditions proposes to expand the human imagination with a call to renewed vision. It invites the reader into active, thoughtful engagement with arguably the most crucial question of our time: what can I make of myself, in the world we have made for ourselves?" H. L. Hix, University of Wyoming