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- For Love of the World: Essays on Nature Writers
- Book
- 1992
- Published by: University of Iowa Press
summary
Along with poets, philosophers, and deep ecologists, nature writers—who may be something of all three—address the world alienation of Western civilization. By example as well as with words, they teach us to turn from the self to the world, from ego to ecos.In these deeply felt meditative essays, Sherman Paul contemplates the cosmological homecoming of nature writers who show us how to reenter the world, participate in it, and recover respect for it.
In For Love of the World Sherman Paul considers Thoreau, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold, major writers in the American tradition of nature writing; Henry Beston and Loren Eiseley, writers not yet so canonical; and Richard Nelson and Barry Lopez, our estimable contemporaries.
Paul's meditative mode follows the practice of naturalists who enter the field, come into the open, and relate their immediate experiences. In the most primary and direct way, his essays belong to our moment in history when nothing is more essential than our reattachment to earthly existence. They will reawaken our love of the world—the necessary eros of ecos—and our wonder at and gratitude for being.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. iii-iv
- Thoreau
- Thinking with Thoreau
- pp. 3-12
- From Walden Out
- pp. 13-21
- Three Reviews
- pp. 22-33
- Leopold
- The Husbandry of the Wild
- pp. 37-53
- Aldo Leopold's Counter-Friction
- pp. 54-63
- Lopez
- Making the Turn: Rereading Barry Lopez
- pp. 67-107
- Beston
- Nelson
- A Letter from Richard Nelson
- pp. 163-176
- Eiseley
- Muir
- Muir's Self-Authorizings
- pp. 221-264
Additional Information
ISBN
9781587291814
Related ISBN(s)
9780877453833, 9780877453963
MARC Record
OCLC
44964814
Pages
274
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1992