Suffering and Evil in Nature: Comparative Responses from Ecstatic Naturalism and Healing Cultures

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Chapter Themes
	Notes
	References
I: A Deep Opening of Nothingness
Chapter 1: Providence and Providingness: On Platonic and Ecstatic Naturalist Good, Evil, and Infinity
	Introduction
	The Triple Providence of Middle Platonism
	The Lower Providence of Neoplatonism
	Additional Considerations for Ecstatic Naturalism
	Notes
	References
Chapter 2: The Experience of Values and the Possibility of Ordinal Phenomenology in Corrington’s Deep Pantheism
	Introduction
	The Stated Problem
	The Problem with Ordinal Phenomenology Underway
	A Pragmatic Jumping-Off Point?
	The Phenomenological Metaphors of Nature and the Implicitness of the Person
	Unraveling Ordinal Phenomenology
	The Place of the Personal Becomes the Impersonal
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 3: Dwelling with the Deep Ones: Lovecraftian Horror and the Selving Process
	Introduction
	Totalizing Nothingness
	Lovecraft’s Dark Dreams
	Wonder and Glory
	Notes
	References
II: Facing Suffering and Violence
Chapter 4: On Being Sunk?
	Introduction
	On Being a Problem
	The Sunken Place as Conceptual Metaphor
	Hegelian Versunken and Alchemical Blackness
	Weaponizing Discourse or Natural Grace: Getting Out as an Ecstatically Indirect Narrative Practice of Freedom
	Notes
	References
Chapter 5: Racism, Religious Education, and Transformation
	Introduction
	The Other Side of the World: China as an Uprising East Asian Country
	The Communication with Heterogeneity: The Narrative of The Greatest Showman
	The Condition of the Self for Human Development
	Designing the Transformation of Human Self in the Ecology of Religious Education
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 6: A Phenomenological Study of Feminist Political Consciousness
	Introduction
	System versus Self
	Feminism and the Abyss: Armoring and Dis-armoring
	Consciousness Raising
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
III: Ecological World Horizons
Chapter 7: Recapturing World-Loyalty: A Relational Response to Ecological Violence
	A warning: The story that follows does not have a happy ending yet
	Notes
	References
Chapter 8: Fecundity and Healing of the Great Mother: Reading Corrington’s Nature and Nothingness via Yin-Yang Thinking
	Introduction
	The Holes in Nature: The Subaltern
	Totalizing Nothingness: The Extremity of Yang
	Naturing Nothingness: The Arrival of Yin
	Encompassing Nothingness: The Supreme Ultimate (Tai-Chi, 太極)
	Conclusion: Healing Eros of the Great Mother
	Notes
	References
IV: Nurturing Nature and Posthumanism
Chapter 9: Evil as Human Resistance to the Indifferent Force of the Primal Nature: On Storytelling Animals
	Introduction
	Empty Signifier
	The Posthuman Evil?
	Being-Human as Storytelling
	The Power of Storytelling against Biochemistry
	Evil Is Not the Answer, So the Story Begins
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 10: The Posthuman and an Advaya Dialectic of Sacrifice
	Introduction
	The Becoming-Human of Machine
	Homeostasis: Between Homeo and Allo
	Advaya Dialectic: From Eternity to Time
	Homeostasis and an Advaya Dialectic of Sacrifice
	Conclusion: Foreboding Intimations in a Posthuman Era of Dialectical Movements
	Notes
	References
Chapter 11: Education for the Symbiosis of Humans and Machines in a Posthuman Age
	Introduction: Arrival of a Posthuman Age
	Living with Machines
	From Individual Survival to Social Structing
	Inconvenience as Power: Changing Noun into Verb
	Conclusion: Living Together Symbiotically
	Notes
	References
V: (A)theodicy through the Anthropocene
Chapter 12: Selving in a Dangerous World: William James, Buddhism, and Ecstatic Naturalism
	Introduction: Rugged Individualism
	That Mixture of Unity and Diversity
	Many Ones and Many Pluralities
	Conclusion: Intimacy
	Notes
	References
Chapter 13: Redemptive Suffering with Tianming 天命: An Ecstatically Naturalist Reading of Sacred Selving in Confucian Ethics
	Introduction
	Translingual Tunings
	Pragmatism and Non-Foundational Theodicy
	Confucian Religiosity and Ecstatic Naturalism: Keeping the Conversation Going
	Mengzi on a Tian-chiseled Moral Body
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 14: We Have Met the Enemy, and He Is Us: The Nature of Evil and the Evil of Nature in the Anthropocene
	Introduction
	Nature and Humans
	Emerson’s “Fate”: The Necessity of Evil
	William James: The Reality of Evil
	Emergence of the Anthropocene
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Index
About the Contributors
	Foreword
	Editors
	Chapter Contributors