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Thinking Nature
An Essay in Negative Ecology
Taschenbuch von Sean J. McGrath
Sprache: Englisch

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Thinking Nature tracks the history of the concept of nature from the Hebrew Bible, through Renaissance philosophy and science, to Dark Ecology. Critical of the post-humanist trend in contemporary eco-criticism, Sean McGrath makes a compelling case for a new anthropocenic humanism - a humanism that is not at the expense of nature, and a naturalism that is not at the expense of the human.

Nature as the stable backdrop of human civilization appears to have vanished in the light of climate change, mass extinction, and genetic engineering. And yet the term 'nature' remains vital to both metaphysics and to public ecological discourse. This is because 'nature', in McGrath's view, is a living symbol, and can survive the extinction of one or another of its meanings. Contemporary ecology must proceed in the absence of a clear concept of nature, not because none are possible, but because of the depth of the transformation occurring to the earth in the Anthropocene. Whatever shape the new concept of nature will take, it must include the one who thinks nature, the human being, since the separation of nature from culture, facts from values, is no longer tenable.
Thinking Nature tracks the history of the concept of nature from the Hebrew Bible, through Renaissance philosophy and science, to Dark Ecology. Critical of the post-humanist trend in contemporary eco-criticism, Sean McGrath makes a compelling case for a new anthropocenic humanism - a humanism that is not at the expense of nature, and a naturalism that is not at the expense of the human.

Nature as the stable backdrop of human civilization appears to have vanished in the light of climate change, mass extinction, and genetic engineering. And yet the term 'nature' remains vital to both metaphysics and to public ecological discourse. This is because 'nature', in McGrath's view, is a living symbol, and can survive the extinction of one or another of its meanings. Contemporary ecology must proceed in the absence of a clear concept of nature, not because none are possible, but because of the depth of the transformation occurring to the earth in the Anthropocene. Whatever shape the new concept of nature will take, it must include the one who thinks nature, the human being, since the separation of nature from culture, facts from values, is no longer tenable.
Über den Autor

Sean J. McGrath is Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Memorial University of Newfoundland and a Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of The Philosophical Foundations of the Late Schelling: The Turn to the Positive (EUP, 2021), Thinking Nature. An Essay in Negative Ecology (EUP, 2019), The Dark Ground of Spirit: Schelling and the Unconscious(Routledge, 2012), Heidegger. A Very Critical Introduction (William B. Eerdmans, 2008) and The Early Heidegger and Medieval Philosophy (Catholic University of America Press, 2006). He is editor of The Palgrave Macmillan Handbook to Schelling (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2020), Rethinking German Idealism (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016) and A Companion to Heidegger's Phenomenology of Religious Life (Rodopi, 2010).

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; 1. Religion is not only the problem, but the solution; 2. Nature is a symbol, but of what?; 3.The theology of disenchantment; 4. Eco-anxiety; 5. Dark ecology; 6. The human difference; 7. What's really wrong with Heidegger; 8. Negative ecology; 9. The road not taken; 10. Contemplative politics; 11. Anthropocenic nature; Bibliography.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 192
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781474449274
ISBN-10: 1474449271
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: McGrath, Sean J.
Hersteller: Edinburgh University Press
Maße: 236 x 159 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Sean J. McGrath
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.08.2021
Gewicht: 0,319 kg
preigu-id: 118358199
Über den Autor

Sean J. McGrath is Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Memorial University of Newfoundland and a Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of The Philosophical Foundations of the Late Schelling: The Turn to the Positive (EUP, 2021), Thinking Nature. An Essay in Negative Ecology (EUP, 2019), The Dark Ground of Spirit: Schelling and the Unconscious(Routledge, 2012), Heidegger. A Very Critical Introduction (William B. Eerdmans, 2008) and The Early Heidegger and Medieval Philosophy (Catholic University of America Press, 2006). He is editor of The Palgrave Macmillan Handbook to Schelling (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2020), Rethinking German Idealism (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016) and A Companion to Heidegger's Phenomenology of Religious Life (Rodopi, 2010).

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; 1. Religion is not only the problem, but the solution; 2. Nature is a symbol, but of what?; 3.The theology of disenchantment; 4. Eco-anxiety; 5. Dark ecology; 6. The human difference; 7. What's really wrong with Heidegger; 8. Negative ecology; 9. The road not taken; 10. Contemplative politics; 11. Anthropocenic nature; Bibliography.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 192
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781474449274
ISBN-10: 1474449271
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: McGrath, Sean J.
Hersteller: Edinburgh University Press
Maße: 236 x 159 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Sean J. McGrath
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.08.2021
Gewicht: 0,319 kg
preigu-id: 118358199
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