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Inhabiting the earth : Heidegger, environmental ethics, and the metaphysics of nature by Bruce V. Foltz is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In Inhabiting the Earth Foltz undertakes the first sustained analysis of how Heidegger's thought can contribute to environmental ethics and to the more broadly conceived field of environmental philosophy.<br> <br> 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 offer a more promising basis for environmental philosophy than others that have so far been put forward.<br> <br> Indeed, 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 messure of selfstanding.<br> <br> But it is probably for the environmental philosophies of deep ecology, bioregionalism, and ecological holism that Heidegger's work has the most immediate, as well as the most extensive implication

Who reads Inhabiting the earth : Heidegger, environmental ethics, and the metaphysics of nature?

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Bruce V. Foltz
Publisher
Humanities Press International, Incorporated
Published
1995
Language
EN
ISBN
9780391038981
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Philosophy, History, Humanities

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