Ontologies of Nature : Continental Perspectives and Environmental Reorientations

By providing ontologies of nature from the perspective of the history of philosophy and of contemporary philosophy alike, the book shows that such perspectives need to be seen in dialogue with each other in order to offer a deeper and more comprehensive philosophy of nature.

Part I. Greek Philosophies of "Physis".- Chapter 1. Physis in Empedocles (Michael Shaw).- Chapter 2. The Ambivalence of Eros: Plato''s Natural Beginning(s) (Joshua Hayes).- Chapter 3. Folding Nature Back Upon Itself: Aristotle and the Rebirth of Physis (Marjolein Oele).- Part II. The Modern Turn in Nature.- Chapter 4. Kant''s ''Other Nature (Angelica Nuzzo).- Chapter 5. Hegel''s Anti-Ontology of Nature (Sebastian Rand).- Chapter 6. Novalis, Nature and the Absolute (Jane Kneller).- Part III. Phenomenologists and Post-Modern Thinkers on Nature.- Chapter 7. An Ecology of the Future (Gerard Kuperus).- Chapter 8. Nature (or Not) In Heidegger (Nancy Holland).- Chapter 9. Precarious Communities: Towards a Phenomenology of Extinction (Brett Buchanan).- Chapter 10. Stratification, Dependence, and Nonanthropocentrism: Nicolai Hartmann''s Critical Ontology (Keith Peterson).- Chapter 11. Naturalism, Estrangement, and Resistance: On the Lived Senses of Nature (Ted Toadvine).- Chapter 12. Given to Bewilderment, Hand to Limb (Peter Steeves).- Chapter 13. When Washing Rice, Know that the Water is Your Own Life: An Essay on Dogen in the Age of Fast Food (Jason Wirth).