CONTENTS -- PREFACE: WHY TRUST THE PAIN? -- INTRODUCTION: FROM SCIENCE TO THE SELF -- I: CHILDHOOD AND THE DISTANCE -- Tiny Things, No Pictures -- The Governess and the Flies -- The Shell against My Mother -- Poetry and Accuracy -- The Condition of Music -- First Ascents: Friends and Mountains -- II: THE MIND AND THE CIRCLE -- Could We Agree to a Formulation Like This? -- Language Unruly and Wild -- Neurosis and Discovery -- The Philosopher at the Clinic -- The Promise of Behavior -- III: RATS IN CALIFORNIA -- We are Super Rats -- Too Many Possibilities -- The Desert -- Psychologists in the Zoo -- It Is True If It Is So -- Not Enough Like Rodents -- Bitten by Wild Animals -- IV: THE CABIN OF CROSSED STONES -- Learning to Love -- Seeing More in Less -- You Are Competent -- Don't Wash Your Dishes! -- The Study of Complexity -- Mathematics and God -- Being Oneself in the Distance -- Compromising Normality -- The Changing Face toward Home -- Crossing the Stones -- V: INSPIRATION AND POSSIBILITY -- Zapffe: Laughing at Darkness -- Wonder or Resignation? -- Spinoza: Intuitions of Interconnection -- From Spinoza to Ecology -- Death of the System -- The Last Alley -- VI: RESIST TOTALITY! -- You Are the Enemy? -- Saving the Students -- Resist the Absolute? -- The Torture Stories -- Defining Democracy -- Gandhi and Galtung -- Life Is Like Downhill Skiing -- VII: DEFINING THE DEEP -- Who Started It? -- The Contribution of Philosophy -- Example 1: More Power -- Example 2: Eskimos and Whales -- Human or Natural? -- Social versus Deep -- The Infinity of Ecologies -- VIII: SEEING THE WORLD ANEW -- Gestalts Undefined -- Imagine We Are under a Waterfall -- Does Arne Naess Believe in Right and Wrong? -- Beethoven -- The Road through the Forest -- The Lake with Motorboats -- Roosevelt in Africa -- The Right and the Many -- IX: ON THIN ICE -- The Net of Security.

The Pain of Thought -- Difference -- Cautionary Tales -- EPILOGUE: A WALK IN THE WORLD OF JOY -- SELECTED WORKS BY ARNE NAESS -- WORKS ABOUT OR INFLUENCED BY ARNE NAESS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.