The Cry of Nature
Title | The Cry of Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen F. Eisenman |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2013-10-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1780232128 |
The eighteenth century saw the rise of new and more sympathetic understanding of animals as philosophy, literature, and art argued that animals could feel and therefore possess inalienable rights. This idea gave birth to a diverse movement that affects how we understand our relationship to the natural world. The Cry of Nature details a crucial period in the history of this movement, revealing the significant role art played in the growth of animal rights. Stephen F. Eisenman shows how artists from William Hogarth to Pablo Picasso and Sue Coe have represented the suffering, chastisement, and execution of animals. These artists, he demonstrates, illustrate the lessons of Montaigne, Rousseau, Darwin, Freud, and others—that humans and animals share an evolutionary heritage of sentience, intelligence, and empathy, and thus animals deserve equal access to the domain of moral right. Eisenman also traces the roots of speciesism to the classical world and describes the social role of animals in the demand for emancipation. Instructive, challenging, and always engaging, The Cry of Nature is a book for anyone interested in animal rights, art history, and the history of ideas.
The Cry of Nature, Or an Appeal to Mercy and Justice, on Behalf of the Persecuted Animals
Title | The Cry of Nature, Or an Appeal to Mercy and Justice, on Behalf of the Persecuted Animals PDF eBook |
Author | John OSWALD (Miscellaneous Writer.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1791 |
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Spiritual Ecology
Title | Spiritual Ecology PDF eBook |
Author | Chief Oren Lyons |
Publisher | The Golden Sufi Center |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2016-09-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1941394140 |
The Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh was asked what we need to do to save our world. "What we most need to do," he replied, "is to hear within us the sound of the earth crying.” Our present ecological crisis is the greatest man-made disaster this planet has ever faced—its accelerating climate change, species depletion, pollution and acidification of the oceans. A central but rarely addressed aspect of this crisis is our forgetfulness of the sacred nature of creation, and how this affects our relationship to the environment. There is a pressing need to articulate a spiritual response to this ecological crisis. This is vital and necessary if we are to help bring the world as a living whole back into balance. The first edition of this book (published in 2013) fostered the emergence of the "Spiritual Ecology Movement," which recognizes the need for a spiritual response to our present ecological crisis. It drew an overwhelmingly positive response from readers, many of whom are asking the simple question, "What can I do?" The 2016 expanded edition offers new chapters, including two from younger authors who are putting the principles of spiritual ecology into action, working with their hands as well as their hearts. It also includes a new preface and revised chapter by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, that reference two major recent events: the publication of Pope Francis's encyclical, "On Care for Our Common Home," which brought into the mainstream the idea that "the ecological crisis is essentially a spiritual problem"; and the 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference, which saw representatives from nearly 200 countries come together to address global warming, including faith leaders from many traditions. And, in Autumn 2021, we have issued a new edition, with a new updated preface from editor Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, who has also rewritten his chapter, “The Call of the Earth.” Bringing together voices from Buddhism, Sufism, Christianity, and Native American traditions, as well as from physics, deep psychology, and other environmental disciplines, this book calls on us to reassess our underlying attitudes and beliefs about the Earth and wake up to our spiritual as well as physical responsibilities toward the planet. "It's hard to imagine finding a wiser group of humans than the authors represented here, all of them both thinkers and do-ers in the greatest battle humans have ever faced. AN EPIC COLLECTION!" —BILL MCKIBBEN, founder 350.org Spiritual Ecology is a superb collection of thoughtful pieces by people who have gone deep to understand our relations with the Earth. It comes at a crucial time for humanity." —BARRY LOPEZ, landscape photographer and author Arctic Dreams (winner National Book Award), Of Wolves and Men, Crossing Open Ground, About This Life "THIS BOOK PROVIDES FRESH THINKING about the spiritual approaches of consciously and consistently making the right choices, each of us within our respective sphere of influence. As the world works towards a new global climate agreement in 2015, it is in our interest and in the interest of future generations to reflect on how we can individually and collectively contribute to addressing climate change by making our economies and lifestyles more sustainable, because solving climate change can help solve many of the issues the earth currently faces. Climate change is therefore both a challenge and an opportunity. I hope this book inspires and energizes many readers eager to rise to the greatest challenge ever to face humanity by realizing the transformative opportunities we have in front of us." —CHRISTIANA FIGUERES, Former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
The Chain of Being and the Cry of Nature
Title | The Chain of Being and the Cry of Nature PDF eBook |
Author | University of Chicago Press |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2003-05-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9781843714620 |
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The Cry of Nature
Title | The Cry of Nature PDF eBook |
Author | John Oswald |
Publisher | |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 1791 |
Genre | Animal welfare |
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A Gap in Nature
Title | A Gap in Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Fridtjof Flannery |
Publisher | Atlantic Monthly Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Extinct animals |
ISBN | 9780871137975 |
A short description of the extinct animal along with a color drawing.
The Cry of Nature, Or, An Appeal to Mercy and to Justice on Behalf of the Persecuted Animals
Title | The Cry of Nature, Or, An Appeal to Mercy and to Justice on Behalf of the Persecuted Animals PDF eBook |
Author | John Oswald |
Publisher | Edwin Mellen Press |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Nature |
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