{"product_id":"hlderlins-philosophy-of-nature-rochelle-tobias-9781474454162","title":"Hderlin's Philosophy of Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn our age of climate change, the work of the decidedly philosophical poet Friedrich Hderlin has gained renewed urgency with its emphasis on the forces of nature that produce life and at the same time threaten to devour it. At the heart of his work lies an understanding of nature and the role that consciousness plays within it. This responds to, but also revises, the concerns of 18th and 19th-century philosophy of nature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis collection of 15 essays by distinguished international scholars reconsiders what his work reveals about the impulses toward form and formlessness in nature and the role that poetry plays in creating Holderlin's 'harmonious opposition'. The collection shows that Hderlin anticipates many of the concerns that motivate contemporary environmental thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe contributions in the volume respond to this programmatic framework by taking Hderlin's work in different -and sometimes even oppes-directions. What emerges from the collection is thus not Hderlin's philosophy of nature but Hderlin's\u003cem\u003e nature-philosophies\u003c\/em\u003e. (...) The success of the volume consists in its reconsideration of Hderlin's poetry as indicative of a speculative project that is not yet complete, one that brings into articulation forms of nature that exceed and yet, some-how ground (or unground) the human being in exploratory and often contradictory ways (...).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rochelle Tobias\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 147445416X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474454162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/30\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.57d","brand":"Rochelle Tobias","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44065833320703,"sku":"9781474454162","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_06b76444-d002-480a-8f5a-31b863664ed0.jpg?v=1685403768","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hlderlins-philosophy-of-nature-rochelle-tobias-9781474454162","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}