Return to Nature? [electronic resource] : An Ecological Counterhistory /
Dallmayr, Fred R.(Fred Reinhard),1928-
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky,
c2011.
Sustainability has become a compelling topic of domestic and international debate as the world searches for effective solutions to accumulating ecological problems. In Return to Nature? An Ecological Counterhistory, Fred Dallmayr demonstrates how nature has been marginalized, colonized, and abused in the modern era. Although nature was regarded as a matrix that encompassed all beings in premodern and classical thought, modern Western thinkers tend to disregard this original unity, essentially exiling nature from human life. By means of a philosophical counterhistory leading from Spinoza to 
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Sustainability has become a compelling topic of domestic and international debate as the world searches for effective solutions to accumulating ecological problems. In Return to Nature? An Ecological Counterhistory, Fred Dallmayr demonstrates how nature has been marginalized, colonized, and abused in the modern era. Although nature was regarded as a matrix that encompassed all beings in premodern and classical thought, modern Western thinkers tend to disregard this original unity, essentially exiling nature from human life. By means of a philosophical counterhistory leading from Spinoza to 
Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-206) and index.
Introduction: letting nature back in -- Nature and divine substance: Spinoza -- Nature and spirit: Schelling -- Nature and sentiment: romanticism -- Nature and experience: Dewey -- Nature and life-world: Merleau-Ponty -- Nature and being: Heidegger -- Nature and the way: Asian thought.
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Philosophy of nature.