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There is a growing urgency in the worldwide environmental crisis. In INHABITING THE EARTH, Bruce Foltz, philosopher and environmental spokesperson, undertakes the first sustained analysis of how Heidegger's thought can contribute to environmental ethics and to the more broadly conceived field environmental philosophy. Through a comprehensive study of the status of "nature" and related concepts such as "earth" in the thought of Martin Heidegger, Foltz attempts to show how Heidegger's understanding of the natural environment and our relation to it offers a more promising basis for environmental philosophy than others than have so far been put foreword.
Dr. Foltz finds that to ecofeminism and social ecology, whose prescriptions are based on historically oriented etiologies of domination and oppression, Heidegger's work offers what is arguably the first comprehensive and nonreductive philosophy of history since Hegel that can embrace both nature and humanity in one narrative, and the first since Augustine that can do this while granting to nature a measure of self-standing. But it is probably for the environmental philosophies of deep ecology, bioregionalism, and ecological holism that Heidegger's work has the most immediate and extensive implications, because it is to them that it has the most affinity. Finally, as a corrective challenge to deep ecology, which has tended to valorize the scientific approach to nature, Heidegger's work provides a sophisticated basis for showing the primacy of the poetic in the task of learning to inhabit the earth rightly.
"Thinkers concerned with environmental philosophy will find this book a profound clarification of our concept of nature." by Professor Alphonso Lingis, Pennsylvania State University
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Inhabiting the Earth: Heidegger, Environmental Ethics, and the Metaphysics of Nature
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