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
Paper: 978-0-8166-2152-1
Library of Congress Classification B4445.N344R68 1993
Dewey Decimal Classification 198.1
TOC
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 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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