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Heidegger and the Environment (Hardcover)
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Heidegger and the Environment (Hardcover)
Series: New Heidegger Research
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In the past few decades, it has become clear that the Western
world's relation to nature has led to environmental degradation so
wide-ranging that it threatens the existence of human civilizations
as we have come to know them. The onset of anthropogenic climate
change and the increasing threats of resource depletions are the
most obvious signs of an environmental crisis. This book attempts
to examine the metaphysical underpinnings of our current
environmental crisis, thereby viewing it from a philosophical
perspective. Using Martin Heidegger's writings on the history of
being as its lynchpin, it examines how humans have come to view
nature as a giant array of mere resources to be maximally
exploited. Following Heidegger, Casey Rentmeester argues that this
understanding of nature is rooted in the understanding of what it
means to be that came about in ancient Greece. Rentmeester then
utilizes elements of Heidegger's post-metaphysical later philosophy
and aspects of early philosophical Daoism to create an alternative
way to think about the relation between humans and nature that is
environmentally sustainable.
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