In
the shadow of a looming global environmental catastrophe humanity is at an
unprecedented crossroad where crucial and difficult decisions must be made
about how we are to live. This book questions where the desire for certainty
and mastery is taking us and argues that reliance on technology and information
alone cannot avoid an ecological catastrophe. It attends to an existential
poverty of spirit that, it suggests, is at the root of contemporary problems.
It tackles the association between a metaphysical void, with its growing sense
of meaninglessness, and the ecological predicament. While many find the
consolations of traditional religion increasingly untenable, a hunger for a
spiritual dimension in life persists. In a rare excursion, yet one which continues
the uniquely human search for a transcendent ground of being, the book explores
an unfamiliar kind of thinking which shelters and liberates the poetic
imagination that counters the modern malaise. In a scholarly yet accessible
account van Leeuwen uncovers from Martin Heidegger's middle/late philosophy an
extraordinary pathway of transformative thinking where this imagination is
nurtured. (amazon) (e-book CGPublsiher 2017-10-1)
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