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Book SynopsisWith Nature provides new ways to think about our relationship with nature in today’s technologically mediated culture. Warwick Mules makes original connections with German critical philosophy and French poststructuralism in order to examine the effects of technology on our interactions with the natural world. In so doing, the author proposes a new way of thinking about the eco-self in terms of a careful sharing of the world with both human and non-human beings. With Nature ultimately argues for a poetics of everyday life that affirms the place of the human-nature relation as a creative and productive site for ecological self-renewal and redirection.
Trade Review'With Nature contains numerous discussions of the work of Friedrich Schelling, Martin Heidegger, and Walter Benjamin that will stimulate philosophers with an interest in ontology'
-- Environmental History, Jonathan Allen
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Wanted – A Nature Philosophy
Part I: The Things of Nature
Chapter 1: Nature Otherwise
Chapter 2: Saying Nature
Part II: Nature Philosophy
Chapter 3: Schelling after Kant
Chapter 4: Unground
Chapter 5: Positive Freedom
Chapter 6: Virtual Nature
Part III: Poetics
Chapter 7: Heidegger’s Thing
Chapter 8: Poetics: Benjamin and Celan
Part IV: Technology
Chapter 9: Benjamin: Collapsing Nature
Chapter 10: Nancy: Renaturing and Bio Art
Conclusion: Towards Ecopoetics
