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.
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