In our time, Ted Toadvine observes, the philosophical question
of nature is almost entirely forgotten--obscured in part by a
myopic focus on solving "environmental problems" without asking how
these problems are framed. But an "environmental crisis," existing
as it does in the human world of value and significance, is at
heart a philosophical crisis. In this book, Toadvine demonstrates
how Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology has a special power to
address such a crisis--a philosophical power far better suited to
the questions than other modern approaches, with their
over-reliance on assumptions drawn from the natural sciences.
The book examines key moments in the development of
Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of nature while roughly following the
historical sequence of his major works. Toadvine begins by setting
out an ontology of nature proposed in Merleau-Ponty's first book,
"The Structure of Behavior. "He takes up the theme of the
expressive role of reflection in "Phenomenology of Perception, "as
it negotiates the area between nature's own "self-unfolding" and
human subjectivity. Merleau-Ponty's notion of "intertwining" and
his account of space provide a transition to Toadvine's study of
the philosopher's later work--in which the concept of "chiasm," the
crossing or intertwining of sense and the sensible, forms the key
to Merleau-Ponty's mature ontology--and ultimately to the
relationship between humans and nature.
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