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Book SynopsisFrom Mastery to Mystery is an original and provocative contribution to the burgeoningfield of ecophenomenology. Informed by current debates in environmental philosophy, Bannon critiques the conception of nature as u200a“substance” that he finds tacitly assumed by the major environmental theorists.
Table of Contents* Acknowledgments * Abbreviations * Introduction The Question of Nature * 1 The Promise of a Common World * i. Nature and the Modern World * ii. Rejecting Naturpolitik * iii. Re-collecting the Pluriverse into a Common World * iv. Conclusion * 2 Science, Technology, and the Closure of Nature * i. Phenomenology and Subjectivism * ii. The Twofold Essence of Physis at the Inception of Philosophy * iii. The Rise of Technology and the Devastation of the Earth * iv. Conclusion * 3 The Opening of the Earth * i. Deciding against the System of Nature * ii. Ereignis and the Restoration of Nature * iii. Conclusion * 4 Merleau-Ponty and Nature as the Common World * i. The Behavior of Nature * ii. Reading the Prose of the World * iii. The Flesh of Nature * iv. A Prospect from within Nature * v. The Dialectic of Nature and History * vi. Conclusion * Conclusion * Notes * Bibliography * Index
