{"product_id":"fugitive-three-covid-pieces-a-goethean-appreciation-9781584208815","title":"Fugitive: Three Covid Pieces: A Goethean Appreciation","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Allan Kaplan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Lindisfarne Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Lindisfarne Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Free Will \u0026amp; Determinism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Following Goethe, I do not seek explanation, and I do not write about anything that is separate from me. My own development through these years, and the developments threading these three years themselves, are one. I try...to portray the character of the emergent social predicament that we are all participants in and responsible for.\" -- \u003cb\u003eAllan Kaplan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmerging from a unique Goethean approach to human experience--developed over a lifetime, applied here to life during the first three years of the Covid era, from a mountain in South Africa--Allan Kaplan's \u003ci\u003eFugitive\u003c\/i\u003e is both a poetic record and a contemplative, scientific roadmap.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn striving to make himself a vessel for sensing the dynamics of our time--the struggle for meaning, the will toward freedom, the experience of powerlessness and surrender, and the urge to defend and secure the capacity for human thinking and discernment--Kaplan allows the profound questions of our time to arise and be explored in thought that is free of the compulsion to arrive at fixed conclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn pondering the elements of nature and the laws governing them, we find the active forces of life and health; we glimpse wisdom at work and, often, beauty. One might be reminded: we, too, are a part of nature, and this wisdom of nature, encountered competently, may serve as a guide in facing the tasks of recognizing, embodying, and preserving the essence of our humanity in these darkening times. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is a little book--an example in practice--to help strengthen our humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lindisfarne Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47779554525335,"sku":"9781584208815","price":1458.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781584208815.webp?v=1778037435","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/fugitive-three-covid-pieces-a-goethean-appreciation-9781584208815","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}