Practicing mortality: art, philosophy, and contemplative seeing

Introduction : what it means to see

Ch. 1. Walking : Thoreau's prepared vision

Ch. 2. beatification of the mundane

Ch. 3. Turning the soul around

Ch. 4. Plato's art

Ch. 5. reverence for wood

Ch. 6. Making Kosmos visible

Ch. 7. Having different things to see

Ch. 8. Thinking as craft : Heidegger and the challenge of modern technology

Ch. 9. Dwelling

Ch. 10. "Not diverse from things" : Emersonian materialism

Epilogue : a life well lived.