Sean J. McGrath

Thinking Nature

An Essay in Negative Ecology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Moving between ancient and modern sources, philosophy and theology, and science and popular culture, Sean McGrath offers a genuinely new reflection on what it means to be human in an era of climate change, mass extinction and geoengineering.

Produktdetails

• New Perspectives in Ontology
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9781474449274
• ISBN-10: 1474449271
• Artikelnr.: 59414430

Autorenporträt

Sean J. McGrath is Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Memorial University of Newfoundland and a Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of The Philosophical Foundations of the Late Schelling: The Turn to the Positive (EUP, 2021), Thinking Nature. An Essay in Negative Ecology (EUP, 2019), The Dark Ground of Spirit: Schelling and the Unconscious(Routledge, 2012), Heidegger. A Very Critical Introduction (William B. Eerdmans, 2008) and The Early Heidegger and Medieval Philosophy (Catholic University of America Press, 2006). He is editor of The Palgrave Macmillan Handbook to Schelling (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2020), Rethinking German Idealism (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016) and A Companion to Heidegger's Phenomenology of Religious Life (Rodopi, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Religion is not only the problem, but the solution
2. Nature is a symbol, but of what?
3.The theology of disenchantment
4. Eco-anxiety
5. Dark ecology
6. The human difference
7. What's really wrong with Heidegger
8. Negative ecology
9. The road not taken
10. Contemplative politics
11. Anthropocenic nature
Bibliography.