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Is It Painful To Think: Conversations with Arne Naess

by David Rothenberg
University of Minnesota Press, 1992
Paper: 978-0-8166-2152-1
Library of Congress Classification B4445.N344R68 1993
Dewey Decimal Classification 198.1

TOC

  • CONTENTS 
    • PREFACE: WHY TRUST THE PAIN?
    • INTRODUCTION: FROM SCIENCE TO THE SELF
    • I 
    • CHILDHOOD AND THE DISTANCE
      • Tiny Things, No Pictures
      • The Governess and the Flies
      • The Shell against My Mother
      • Poetry and Accuracy
      • The Condition of Music
      • First Ascents: Friends and Mountains
    • II 
    • THE MIND AND THE CIRCLE
      • Could We Agree to a Formulation Like This?
      • Language Unruly and Wild
      • Neurosis and Discovery
      • The Philosopher at the Clinic
      • The Promise of Behavior
    • III 
    • RATS IN CALIFORNIA
      • We are Super Rats
      • Too Many Possibilities
      • The Desert
      • Psychologists in the Zoo
      • It Is True If It Is So
      • Not Enough Like Rodents
      • Bitten by Wild Animals
    • IV 
    • THE CABIN OF CROSSED STONES
      • Learning to Love
      • Seeing More in Less
      • You Are Competent
      • Don't Wash Your Dishes!
      • The Study of Complexity
      • Mathematics and God
      • Being Oneself in the Distance
      • Compromising Normality
      • The Changing Face toward Home
      • Crossing the Stones
    • V 
    • INSPIRATION AND POSSIBILITY
      • Zapffe: Laughing at Darkness
      • Wonder or Resignation?
      • Spinoza: Intuitions of Interconnection
      • From Spinoza to Ecology
      • Death of the System
      • The Last Alley
    • VI 
    • RESIST TOTALITY
      • You Are the Enemy?
      • Saving the Students
      • Resist the Absolute?
      • The Torture Stories
      • Defining Democracy
      • Gandhi and Galtung
      • Life Is Like Downhill Skiing
    • VII 
    • DEFINING THE DEEP
      • Who Started It?
      • The Contribution of Philosophy
      • Example 1: More Power
      • Example 2: Eskimos and Whales
      • Human or Natural?
      • Social versus Deep
      • The Infinity of Ecologies
    • VIII 
    • SEEING THE WORLD ANEW
      • Gestalts Undefined
      • Imagine We Are under a Waterfall
      • Does Arne Naess Believe in Right and Wrong?
      • Beethoven
      • The Road through the Forest
      • The Lake with Motorboats
      • Roosevelt in Africa
      • The Right and the Many
    • IX 
    • ON THIN ICE
      • The Net of Security
      • The Pain of Thought
      • Difference
      • Cautionary Tales
    • EPILOGUE: A WALK IN THE WORLD OF JOY
    • SELECTED WORKS BY ARNE NAESS
    • WORKS ABOUT OR INFLUENCED BY ARNE NAESS
    • INDEX
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