The Eco-Philosophy Center

 

 

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Publications

We presently have a limited supply of the following publications. All works are by Henryk Skolimowski, and all prices include postage:

Eco-Philosophy: Designing New Tactics for Living
(1981) - 117 pgs, hard cover. Price: $13.00

This is a succinct and popular book, one of the first to give an in-depth examination of the philosophical basis for the environmental movement.  Chapters include "Eco-philosophy vs. Contemporary Philosophy", "Ecological Humanism", and "Celebrating Life".  A classic!

Technology and Human Destiny
(1983)  124 pgs, paperback.  Price: $6.00

A concise and insightful analysis of the role of technology in the modern world.  Even more relevant now than when it was written.  Chapters include:  " Philosophy of Technology Conceived as Philosophy of Man", "Myths Behind the Reality", "Scientific World-View and the Illusions of Progress", and "A Philosophy of Needs".

Theater of the Mind 
(1984) - 160 pgs, paperback.   Price:  $10.00

A collection of 26 concise and illuminating essays on many aspects of eco-philosophy, including "Rational Mysticism", "Reverential Thinking", "Of Secular and Transcendental Imagination", and "Glory to Evolution".

Out of the Cosmic Dust 
(1989) - 67 pgs, hard cover.   Price:  $6.00

A collection of 40 poems by Skolimowski, covering a range of topics.  Sections include "Of Energy, and Stars", "Songs of Anguish", and "Songs of Affirmation".

Dancing Shiva in the Ecologcial Age 
(1991) - 182 pgs, paperback ($10) and hard cover ($15).

This work is a collection of 16 essays which further articulate the concepts surrounding eco-philosophy, and describe how eco-philosophy relates to today's world.  Essay titles include:  "Eco-Philosophy and Buddhism", "Life, Entropy, and Education", and "World Views, Eco-Values, and Peace".

Sacred Place to Dwell
(1993) 146 pgs, paperback. Price: $14.00

Skolimowski's fullest articulation of the ideas of evolutionary religion and ecological spirituality.  He boldly proposes a radical revisioning of the very nature of religion, and recasts it in an ecological vein.  Chapters include:  "Ecological Spirituality", "Evolutionary God", "Responsibility, Grace, and Hope", and "The Beautiful and the Sacred".

Participatory Mind
(1994)  395 pgs, paperback.  Price: $15.00

Skolimowski's philosophical magnum opus, and probably his most enduring intellectual legacy.  Here he achieves the culmination of his 'philosophy of participation', and the illuminates the critical role of mind in reality.  A new ontology, a new epistemology, a new worldview  in a single framework.  Chapters include:  "Mind in History", Methodology of Participation", "Participatory Truth", and "Grand Theory in the Participatory Key".

Eco yoga
(1994) 192 pgs, hard cover.

This work proposes specific exercises and meditations wich allow us to translate the intellectual content of Eco-philosophy, and of Participatory Mind, into acts of ones being, so that we walk in beauty in daily reality.

Dharma, Ecology, and Wisdom in the Third Millennium 
(1999) - 127 pgs, paperback.   Price: $13.00