The Way of Imagination
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Prize-winning essayist turns to the imagination as a spiritual guide and material method of living through climate disruption, as climate change and broad extinction forever alter our place on the planet and our lives together.
Scott Russell Sanders shows how imagination, linked to compassion, can help us solve the urgent ecological and social challenges we face. While reflecting on the conditions needed for human flourishing, he tells the story of his own intellectual and moral journey from childhood religion to an adult philosophy of life. That philosophy is tested when his first wife and then their son fall ill. Compelled to leave their beloved old house, they design a new one, and then transform their vision into a home and their raw city lot into a garden.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Living Midnight
- The Way of Imagination
- Immersed in Mystery
- Near and Distant Bears
- Useless Beauty
- The Infinite Extent of Our Relations
- Language vs. Lies
- Conscience and Resistance
- Kinship and Kindness
- The Suffering of Strangers
- Neighbors
- At the Gates of Deep Darkness
- Writing While the World Burns
- A Writer's Calling
- True Wealth
- God in the Garden
- Words of Thanks
- Notes
- About the Author
