Trees and the “Unthought Known”: The Wisdom of the Nonhuman (or Do Humans “Have Shit for Brains”?)
Drawing on Richard Powers’s Pulitzer-winning novel The Overstory (2018), this article explores the limits of human wisdom (or why humans persist in denying what we know about the earth, especially what we knew as children) and wisdom’s bounty within the wider world, unknown, untapped, unprotected, a...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Springer Science Business Media B. V.
[2020]
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Pastoral psychology
Année: 2020, Volume: 69, Numéro: 4, Pages: 423-443 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Earth
B Trees B Lewis Rambo B Richard Powers B Environnement (art) B Peter Wohlleben B Pastoral Theology B Ecology B Conversion B Knowledge |
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| Résumé: | Drawing on Richard Powers’s Pulitzer-winning novel The Overstory (2018), this article explores the limits of human wisdom (or why humans persist in denying what we know about the earth, especially what we knew as children) and wisdom’s bounty within the wider world, unknown, untapped, unprotected, and disrespected, with a particular focus on trees. It asks how people (the author included but especially white westerners) have come to disbelieve the intelligence of the nonhuman and, as a consequence, resist the ecological disaster wrought by our cherished obliviousness, and it argues for tree knowledge as a reasonable Christian claim, despite warnings that such claims reflect heresy. Influenced by Powers and Lewis Rambo, the essay asks about conversion—what will it take to convert us?—and suggests that pastoral theology’s responsibilities include an embrace of seeing more through fiction and trees. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6679 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-020-00920-7 |