Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: The Traditional Reading of Heideggerâ€?s Relevance for Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
  • I. Heidegger and Environmental Philosophy: A Checkered History
  • 1. Early Critics of Heideggerâ€?s Account of Nature
  • 2. Heidegger and Deep Ecology
  • 3. Continental Approaches to Heidegger and Environmental Philosophy
  • II. Heidegger and Environmental Philosophy: A Round Square?
  • 1. Anthropocentrism
  • 2. Axiology
  • 3. Scientific Naturalism
  • III. Eco-Phenomenology: A Naturalized Heidegger?
  • Conclusion: Naturalizing HeideggerChapter 2: The Question concerning Biology: Life, Soul, and Nature in Heideggerâ€?s Early Aristotle Lecture Courses
  • Pre-Being and Time: Aristotle on Life, Soul, and Nature
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 3: Life and Nature in Being and Time
  • I. Being and Time in Brief
  • II. Nihilism in Being and Time
  • III. Heideggerâ€?s Understanding of World
  • IV. The Concept of Life
  • V. The Three Senses of Nature
  • VI. Problems in Heideggerâ€?s Account of Nature in Being and Time
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 4: Back to Life: Organism, Animal, and Umwelt in Fundamental Concepts of MetaphysicsI. Nihilism in Heideggerâ€?s Late 1920s Writings
  • II. Life and Animality in Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics
  • III. Critical Considerations
  • 1. Evolution
  • 2. Hierarchy
  • 3. The Human/Animal Divide
  • Conclusion: The Kantian Roots of Heideggerâ€?s Later Philosophy of Nature: The Earth as the Sublime
  • Chapter 5: Nature in the Later Heidegger: Earth, Physis, Technology, Machination, and Poetic Dwelling
  • I. Earth
  • II. Physis
  • 1. Introduction to Metaphysics
  • 2. “On the Essence and Concept of Physis in Aristotleâ€?s Physics Bâ€?III. Technological Nihilism
  • 1. Contributions to Philosophy (from Enowning) and Mindfulness
  • 2. “The Question Concerning Technologyâ€?
  • IV. Poetic Dwelling
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 6: Nature and Nihilism: Heideggerâ€?s Confrontation with Nietzsche
  • I. Nihilism in the Later Heidegger
  • 1. The History of Being: Metaphysics as Nihilism
  • 2. Introduction to Metaphysics
  • II. Heideggerâ€?s Nietzsche Interpretation
  • III. Additional Problems with Heideggerâ€?s Interpretation
  • ConclusionChapter 7: Naturalizing Nietzsche: Life, Evolution, and Value
  • I. Nietzscheâ€?s Naturalism
  • II. Nietzscheâ€?s Philosophy of Biology
  • 1. Darwin
  • 2. Teleology: From the Mechanistic View to the “Dynamic Interpretation of the Worldâ€?
  • 3. Drives
  • 4. Values
  • 5. Selection
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 8: Engaging Environmental Ethics
  • I. Debating Nietzscheâ€?s Relevance for Environmental Ethics
  • II. Hierarchical Biocentrism
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index