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Major Canadian Authors. Second Edition, Revised and Expanded by David Stouck (review)

can be as radical, for bioregionalism cuts across the grain of all our current political categories, forcing us to think anew the structures that relate us to each other, our place, and its flora and fauna. Another commonality is this: most of Loeffler’s iconoclasts are moralists, a title that no longer has a positive connotation in our relativistic culture. Throughout these interviews there is concern with the good, the moral, the ethical, with oughts and obligations. Whether it is John Fife’s Sanctuary move­ ment, the insistent anarchism of Abbey’s novels and essays, Reggio’s brilliantly aggressive use of the media, Nichols’ subtly Marxist novels, Foreman’s trans­ lation of traditional non-violent tactics into an environmental context, or Weil’s subversion of accepted medical models, these interviews offer a vision of a better life. No doubt these iconoclasts would feel uncomfortable with this title “mor­ alist,” but as recent events in Europe have demonstrated, it is the moralists— grass roots activists, intellectuals and spiritual leaders—who hold the symbolic power that on occasion overwhelms the more conventional forces of mass consensus, law, public apathy, and fear, and generate social change. Loeffler’s inspiring book suggests the same possibility exists for us.