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About Roland In Moonlight
Product Description As everyone knows, the bond between homo sapiens sapiens and canis lupus familiaris has traversed the ages. But few could have anticipated the remarkable exchange here recounted between David Bentley Hart and a noble beast named Roland. Roland in Moonlight breaks new ground within Hart’s already astonishingly wide-ranging body of work. Eschewing the rigidity of the human either/or, Roland’s diagonal approach offers secret illuminations and hidden affinities, as all and sundry come into his purview: paganism, dreams, language, myth, politics, American Christianity, Indian metaphysics, Japanese aesthetics… But perhaps most of all, the book is a kaleidoscopic exploration of the nature of mind and consciousness. Woven through all this is a candid memoir, a story of loss and recovery, of personal trials and tribulations, with Roland “leading the way through the darkened rooms and the sporadic shafts of icy moonlight, his mottled coat a constantly fluctuating counterpoint of shadow and light”—a strange and sure balm for the soul. Roland in Moonlight is a wholly unforgettable reading experience—a journey into the possible upon the wings of a heavenly discourse between man and beast, and the singular—indeed, blessed—rapport that guides their lives. It is impossible not to be swept along as Roland takes flight. Review " Roland in Moonlight by David Bentley Hart (Angelico Press) is a dialogue with the author's dog Roland, who turns out to be a philosopher of mind, with a particular bee in his bonnet about the inadequacy of materialist explanations for 'consciousness'. . . . Probably the dottiest book of the year, but/and I KEEP returning to it." — A.N. Wilson, in TLS, Books of the Year 2021 From the Back Cover "This is a marvelous and absorbing book by one of the most singular thinkers and writers of our time. In his inimitable style, David Bentley Hart tells us something of his singular story, engaging with the deepest perplexities of thought while living through the sorrows and joys of life, all in companionable conversation with Roland. Marvelous: in that Roland is a sympathetic and wise dog, not quite a dog philosopher in the old cynical sense, not quite the hound of heaven, but a friend of man, with a finesse for things human and divine that abide and surprise, things many before us have known and that today we need as much as ever. Absorbing: the story engages us between touching biographical telling, deft dialogical exchanges with Roland, and searching dialectical explorations of philosophical and theological themes. It is hard to think of another philosophical-theological thinker who writes with such panache, at once singular and embracing. Very warmly recommended."-- WILLIAM DESMOND "When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. I believed the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything was 42. When I became a man, I put away childish things. I now know that the answer to every question is Roland or, more properly, ROLAND-CONSCIOUSNESS--that naturally luminous, spontaneously liberated Spirit in which we live, and move, and have our being. In these last days, Roland has condescended to appear to none other than David Bentley Hart, whose considerable literary powers have been tested in the telling. Part My Dog Tulip, part Pale Fire, part Autobiography of a Yogi, Hart's Roland in Moonlight is an instant spiritual classic."-- TRENT POMPLUN "Wow. Who knew dreamful dialogues with a dog could be so superabundantly disclosive? Roland in Moonlight is mesmerizing, moving, and masterful, no less playfully delightful than profoundly insightful in its reflections on perception and consciousness, transcendence and limitation, poetry and translating, physics and metaphysics, relationships, suffering, healing, pathos, hope, and beauty. Overflowing with erudition that spans religious and intellectual traditions East and
