The Noetics of Nature by Bruce V. Foltz - 9780823254644

The Noetics of NatureEnvironmental Philosophy and the Holy Beauty of the Visible\nAuthor(s): Bruce V. Foltz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823254644, 978-0823254644\nSynopsis\nContemplative or \""noetic\"" knowledge has traditionally been seen as the highest mode of understanding, a view that persists both in many non-Western cultures and in Eastern Christianity, where \""theoria physike,\"" or the illumined understanding of creation that follows the purification of the heart, is seen to provide deeper insights into nature than the discursive rationality modernity has used to dominate and conquer it.\n Working from texts in Eastern Orthodox philosophy and theology not widely known in the West, as well as a variety of sources including mystics such as the Sufi Ibn 'Arabi, poets such as Basho, Traherne, Blake, Hlderlin, and Hopkins, and nature writers such as Muir, Thoreau, and Dillard, The Noetics of N.