1. Earth, Nature, and Environment: An Introduction to the Problem and a Summary of the Argument -- 2. The Critique of the Traditional Metaphysics of Nature in Heidegger's Early Writings -- 3. The "Primordial Sense" of Nature in the Early Writings -- 4. The History of Being -- 5. Science and Metaphysics: Nature as Object -- 6. The Technological Domination of Nature: Nature as Inventory -- Excursus on Heidegger and Politics -- 7. Heidegger's Deconstruction of the Metaphysics of Nature: Toward a New Topology of the Natural -- 8. Dwelling Poetically Upon the Earth: Toward a New Environmental Ethic
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-193) and index