The Return of Nature: Coming As If from Nowhere

A reflection on the urgent need for a new philosophical understanding of, and relationship with, nature.

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 ph...