The Coronation
Essays from the Covid Moment
Paperback | 28 July 2022
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Controversy and despair, hope and isolation, courage and division, withdrawal and reunion: How can we find meaning within this complex 'Covid' moment - and emerge renewed?
Renowned public speaker, bestselling author, social critic and activist Charles Eisenstein offers a way forward through a series of unforgettable essays that give us a new model of sense-making in a post-Covid world. The Coronation places each essay in the context of the author's social, political and spiritual journey through the past two years.
Eisenstein shows how an old reality has disintegrated - and just how deep that breakdown is. He asserts that by acknowledging it, we might build something more sound, more whole, and more sane. Underneath the shifting sands of the global arguments and media narratives, something else calls to us: the possibility of renewal, a revolution in the agreements and myths that organise society.
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"Charles Eisenstein is one of those courageous dissidents who also holds the faith that people can return to love after a hiatus of hate. As we go deeper into this new era of permacrisis, Charles's writings will become ever more pertinent."
-Professor Jem Bendell, professor of sustainability leadership; founder, Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS), University of Cumbria (UK); founder and former coordinator, Deep Adaptation Forum
"Charles Eisenstein has taken on the hardest task in the world-writing an intelligent, compassionate, and uncompromising book on the Covid-19 pandemic, without falling into either partisan hysteria or a shameless defense of power. This is a necessary and brave read."
-Paul Kingsnorth, novelist; founder, Dark Mountain Project
"There are moments in our history in which the art of the written word captures the extraordinary beauty of the human condition as it hangs suspended in tenuous polarity at a tipping point of evolution. The Coronation is one of these moments. In between these words that are as prophetic as they are poetic is the space of our collective metamorphosis. Tread lightly and dive deep here to find your own sovereign beauty."
-Zach Bush, MD
"If there's one thing this dangerous collection of essays about the coronavirus pandemic shows, it is that the virus that irrupted into the stolid course of our everyday lives back in 2019 is something more than a pathogen: It is an indictment of the village by the masqueraded fool outside its fences; it is a composting of the colonial altars dedicated to the worship of the one true God of knowing, science; it is a crystallization of the racialized economies of suffering and quotidian violence behind the spectacular; it is an expose on the theatricality of contemporary politics and the care it promises good citizens. It is thought itself. We've been visited by this wild ferocious goddess, and few can do as well as Charles does in tracing out an ethnography of her passing. Whether or not we agree with the maps Charles composes, we will need this struggle, this wrestling-together-with-our-exposed-selves, if we hope to thrive as an entourage species."
-Bayo Akomolafe, PhD, author of These Wilds Beyond Our Fences
"Charles Eisenstein is one of the most original writers working today, and his essays on the social and spiritual impact of the pandemic event are among his best work. The Coronation is essential reading for anyone concerned about the damage that has been done to our societies and how we might recover and collectively go forward from here."
-C. J. Hopkins, award-winning playwright, novelist, and political satirist
"Charles Eisenstein is one of the few voices worldwide who have the capacity to be critical and gentle at the same time. His work is brilliant, crystal clear at the logical level, evocative and eloquent at the stylistic level. Charles went down the road of rationality to the very end, and at the end of it, he entered a world of mystical and spiritual knowledge and beauty. Charles's discourse contains the seeds of a new way of living together and of a true solution for the series of crises our culture is going through at this very moment."
-Mattias Desmet, author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism
ISBN: 9781645021780
ISBN-10: 1645021785
Published: 28th July 2022
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 192
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 21.5 x 14 x 1.5
Weight (kg): 0.22
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