Pagan polemic reflections on nature, consciousness, and anarchism
A pagan polemic
Jack Loeffler.
- Albuquerque, New Mexico University of New Mexico Press 2023
- xvii, 151 pages illustrations ; 22 cm
Prologue. Rambling Reflections of the Reservoir of Memory -- Our Window: An Editorial--1972 -- The Practice of Aural History -- Native Windows into the Natural World -- Aldo Leopold in the Southwest -- Averting Dystopia -- LUCA's Dream -- Conflicting Ideologies -- Counterculture in the Land of Clear Light -- In Praise of Restoration Ecology -- Nature Abhors a Maximum -- A Sonoran Illumination -- Thinking Like a Watershed -- The Colorado River Compact Is 100 Years Old -- On Direct Action -- A Case for Naturist Anarchism -- Naturizing Consciousness -- Seeking Coherence -- Lingering Speculations -- Conclusion. Invigorating Metamorphosis
A Pagan Polemic curates the evolving perspective of Jack Loeffler--itinerant wanderer, environmental warrior, storyteller, and story collector--whose true education began when he was marched into the Nevada desert one day at dawn to play "The Stars and Stripes Forever" during an atomic bomb test a scant few miles away. Since that day in 1957, Jack's mission in life has been to record peoples of the borderlands and to bring "indigenous mindedness" to the forefront of the conversation about our precarious environments and our decaying planet. A Pagan Polemic is a sweeping manifesto of Jack's core beliefs and long experience as a fierce (and funny) advocate for Nature and Nature-mindedness and against poisonous politics and policies.
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Human ecology--Philosophy. Philosophy of nature. �Ecologie humaine--Philosophie. Philosophie de la nature. LITERARY COLLECTIONS--Essays HISTORY--United States--State & Local--Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) NATURE--Environmental Conservation & Protection Civilization--Philosophy. Human ecology--Philosophy. Philosophy of nature.
Southwest, New--Civilization--Philosophy. New Southwest.