Naturalizing Heidegger: His Confrontation with Nietzsche, His Contributions to Environmental Philosophy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781438454832)

In Naturalizing Heidegger, David E. Storey proposes a new interpretation of Heidegger's importance for environmental philosophy, finding in the development of his thought from the early 1920s to his later work in the 1940s the groundwork for a naturalistic ontology of life. Primarily drawing on Heidegger's engagement with Nietzsche, but also on his readings of Aristotle and the biologist Jakob von Uexk ll, Storey focuses on his critique of the nihilism at the heart of modernity, and his conception of the intentionality of organisms and their relation to their environments. From these ideas, a vision of nature emerges that recognizes the intrinsic value of all living things and their kinship with one another, and which anticipates later approaches in the philosophy of nature, such as Hans Jonas's phenomenology of life and Evan Thompson's contemporary attempt to naturalize phenomenology.

Author: David E. Storey
ISBN-10: 143845483X
ISBN-13: 9781438454832
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2015
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.07h x 6.45w x 0.92d