Naturalizing Heidegger : his confrontation with Nietzsche, his contributions to environmental philosophy / David E. Storey.

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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Traditional Reading of Heidegger�s Relevance for Environmental Philosophy and Ethics -- I. Heidegger and Environmental Philosophy: A Checkered History -- 1. Early Critics of Heidegger�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 Heidegger�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. Heidegger�s Understanding of World -- IV. The Concept of Life -- V. The Three Senses of Nature -- VI. Problems in Heidegger�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 Heidegger�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 Heidegger�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 Aristotle�s Physics B�III. Technological Nihilism -- 1. Contributions to Philosophy (from Enowning) and Mindfulness -- 2. “The Question Concerning Technology� -- IV. Poetic Dwelling -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Nature and Nihilism: Heidegger�s Confrontation with Nietzsche -- I. Nihilism in the Later Heidegger -- 1. The History of Being: Metaphysics as Nihilism -- 2. Introduction to Metaphysics -- II. Heidegger�s Nietzsche Interpretation -- III. Additional Problems with Heidegger�s Interpretation

ConclusionChapter 7: Naturalizing Nietzsche: Life, Evolution, and Value -- I. Nietzsche�s Naturalism -- II. Nietzsche�s Philosophy of Biology -- 1. Darwin -- 2. Teleology: From the Mechanistic View to the “Dynamic Interpretation of the World� -- 3. Drives -- 4. Values -- 5. Selection -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8: Engaging Environmental Ethics -- I. Debating Nietzsche�s Relevance for Environmental Ethics -- II. Hierarchical Biocentrism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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