The book's wealth of topics includes spiritual deep ecology, ethical theory, ani
mal rights, the Holocaust, the environmental crisis, and the experience of disab
ility-as well as new essays on the human meaning of technology, facing death, an
d a fascinating intellectual autobiography. As a whole, Political and Spiritual
reveals Gottlieb's unique ability to connect our collective struggles for a just
, rational, and caring society with our personal strivings for contentment, wisd
om, and compassion.