The Return of Nature: On the Beyond of Sense
John Sallis dismantles the traditional conception of nature in this book of imagination and the cosmos. In the thought of Emerson, Hegel, and Schelling, Sallis discerns the seeds of an understanding of nature that goes against the modern technological assault on natural things and opens a space for a revitalized approach to the world. He identifies two fundamental reorientations that philosophical thought is called on to address today: the turn to the elemental in nature and the turn from nature to the cosmos at large. He traces the elusive course of the imagination, as if coming from nowhere, and describes the way in which it bears on the relation of humans to nature. Sallis's account demonstrates that a renewal of our understanding of nature is one of the prime imperatives we demand from philosophy today.

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The Return of Nature: On the Beyond of Sense
John Sallis dismantles the traditional conception of nature in this book of imagination and the cosmos. In the thought of Emerson, Hegel, and Schelling, Sallis discerns the seeds of an understanding of nature that goes against the modern technological assault on natural things and opens a space for a revitalized approach to the world. He identifies two fundamental reorientations that philosophical thought is called on to address today: the turn to the elemental in nature and the turn from nature to the cosmos at large. He traces the elusive course of the imagination, as if coming from nowhere, and describes the way in which it bears on the relation of humans to nature. Sallis's account demonstrates that a renewal of our understanding of nature is one of the prime imperatives we demand from philosophy today.

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The Return of Nature: On the Beyond of Sense

The Return of Nature: On the Beyond of Sense

by John Sallis
The Return of Nature: On the Beyond of Sense

The Return of Nature: On the Beyond of Sense

by John Sallis

Overview

John Sallis dismantles the traditional conception of nature in this book of imagination and the cosmos. In the thought of Emerson, Hegel, and Schelling, Sallis discerns the seeds of an understanding of nature that goes against the modern technological assault on natural things and opens a space for a revitalized approach to the world. He identifies two fundamental reorientations that philosophical thought is called on to address today: the turn to the elemental in nature and the turn from nature to the cosmos at large. He traces the elusive course of the imagination, as if coming from nowhere, and describes the way in which it bears on the relation of humans to nature. Sallis's account demonstrates that a renewal of our understanding of nature is one of the prime imperatives we demand from philosophy today.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780253023131
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 09/30/2016
Series: Studies in Continental Thought
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

John Sallis is Frederick J. Adelmann Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He is author of more than 20 books, including Light Traces (IUP, 2014) and Logic of Imagination (IUP, 2012).

Table of Contents

Prologue
1. The Return of Nature
2. The Birth of Nature
3. Return to Nature
4. Return from the Nature beyond Nature
5. The Elemental Turn
6. The Cosmological Turn
7. Coming as if from Nowhere
8. The Plurality of Nature and the Disintegration of Difference

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