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Sex and God and Other Essays explores the bipolar tension of base and "high" aspects of human life. The author discusses animal earthliness-Godly gravitas, lust-romance, resentment-acceptance, pain-pleasure, and a host of other bipolar tensions in twenty-six essays and four short stories. He seeks to show that a good human life embraces its wholeness, encompassing everything from the animal depths of its libido to the spiritual crest of its soul. In the process, he reaches surprising conclusions on a variety of topics-social, political, philosophical, literary, psychological, and spiritual....

This richly diverse collection looks at the contemporary relevance of the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to environmental issues and builds a coherent philosophical ecology based on his thought. The contributors describe and analyze relations within the natural world by focusing on the centrality of relations in Merleau-Ponty's work; his concept of the bond between humanity and nature; and his novel philosophies of perception, embodiment, and "wild" Being. Eco-phenomenologies of living places such as Central Park in New York City, Midwestern farmlands, and communal household dwellings of...