Hell

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An erudite theological meditation....readers will find insights into the ways religion shapes conceptions of science and the self. * Publishers Weekly * Hell cultivates an experience more than it lays out an argument, as if to chip away at the certainties that have long held Christians captive to the colonialist and capitalist structures that have brought hell into the present. This book is maddening, and therein lies its brilliance. * Christian Century * Morton invites us on a search for something sexy, life-giving, sacred, and psychedelic. This is a book that is all about feeling, and which draws us into a feeling of the sacredness of life. * Reading Religion * Hell is utterly impossible to put down just because of the sheer force of its language - one cannot stop because one has to know what the next sentence, the next image, the next paragraph will bring. ... violently brilliant, overpowering, magical, mystical, intimate, ineffable, and, yes, holy. * Daily Philosophy * If you like depth to your revolutionary prose, you should read this book. It's more daring, fundamental, and radical than any book about the environment written by an ecosocialist. It's also incomparably more entertaining. * Independent Left * Timothy Morton has written a book that deserves to occupy people for a long time to come. It deserves the attention of anyone who cares for Blake or for ecology, and anyone who has longed to see a revived truly radical Christianity. Hell is a beautiful book. * Traveller in the Evening * Hell, if we are serious about changing the trajectory of the universe, this book is a must read. It is not the typical Christian ecology book, it's not even the typical ecology book. It's deep. It's personal. - And it flips our thinking about what's necessary to save both our planet and our own souls. * ReImagining Christianity * Consciously written 'with' Blake, Hell is daring on many levels. Its move closer to the 'feel' of a different ecological future is also a move closer to the feeling of Blake's friendship, at a time when we need it most. * Blake Quarterly * The prose is a living thing, and the editing is impeccable. To fully appreciate this exasperating, dazzling, and deeply personal book is to grasp Morton's principle of phenomenology: 'The how is the what' * Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture * What a massive relief to have another book about the biggest disasters of our age from the hilarious, wise, and brilliant Tim Morton. Wild and free, Tim's ideas give me hope. -- Laurie Anderson Timothy Morton journeys with the restless and radical spirit of William Blake through Hell, seeking synthesis and reconciliation between the methods of science and the spirit of religion. Signaling to us through the flames of their own personal hell, Morton shapes a space where we-freed from Cartesian subjectivity and the demands of old, vengeful gods-may glimpse the prospect of a new Jerusalem, one built on love. -- David Dorrell, writer, curator, cofounder of LOVE, member of M/A/R/R/S Hell is an ecstatic sermon beamed in from another dimension, one far stranger and more human than our own. I often think that dimension is where Timothy Morton's consciousness resides, and we are so very lucky for it. -- Laura Hudson, journalist, editor, writer Reading Timothy Morton is something between watching a gifted comedian and experiencing a religious conversion. This book is classic Tim Morton, and it's more. It's William Blake's "mental fight" reimagined for our contemporary world. It's religion reloaded after a major born-again experience (yep), British colonialism, ecological catastrophe, and the efflorescence of diversity on every racial, sexual, and gender level one can imagine (and then some). Hell is a trip, and a flip. Get ready. You probably already are. -- Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of <i>How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else</i>