Jason M. Wirth is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University. He is the author of Schelling's Practice of the Wild: Time, Art, Imagination and The Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His Time; the translator of The Ages of the World by F. W. J. Schelling; and the coeditor (with Patrick Burke) of The Barbarian Principle: Merleau-Ponty, Schelling, and the Question of Nature, all published by SUNY Press.

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Preface (Milarepa's Stone Tower)
Part I: The Great Earth

1. Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth
2. Geology (Poetic Word)
Part II: Turtle Island

3. Place (Land and Sea, Earth and Sky)
4. Bears (The Many Palaces of the Earth)
Part III. Earth Democracy

5. The Great Potlatch
6. Seeds of Earth Democracy
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Index