| The Wind: An Unruly Living Contributor(s): Bendik-Keymer, Jeremy (Author) |
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ISBN: 1947447955 ISBN-13: 9781947447950 Publisher: Punctum Books OUR PRICE: $19.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Essays |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 5" W x 8" (0.40 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Part primer, part parable, part elegy for the depth and decency we sacrifice daily to the order of self-possession, The Wind invites us to enjoy it inventively .... A philosopher coming up against the limits of philosophy's forms of communication ("Philosophy, without being in touch, is always abstract"), Bendik-Keymer courts a thoughtfulness in which wonder practically circumvents theory. Energized by "utopian anger," he invokes the clearing, shaking energies of wind against the violent social rigidities we accept as normal. The wind, impersonal, is the figure through which to keep the dynamic inter-personal in view. ... I admire this book's inventiveness, its willingness to break with discipline in pursuing a wider vision of accountability." (Sarah Gridley, author of "Weather Eye Open" and "Loom") A process begun in Pisa, Italy in April of 2016 during a workshop on political theory in the Anthropocene, The Wind An Unruly Living is a philosophical exercise (ask sis, translated, following Ignatius of Loyola, as "spiritual exercise"). In his exercise, Bendik-Keymer throws to the void: the ideology of self-ownership from a society of possession. By using the Stoic kan n, the rule of living by ph sis, he follows an element. Unhappily for the Stoic and happily for us, the wind is unruly. A swerve of currents through a social fabric, it's full of holes, all holely. Stretch and stitch as you want, it might settle more shapely tattered into light, but it will never become whole. The wind's only holesome. |