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Author Foltz, Bruce V.

Title Inhabiting the earth : Heidegger, environmental ethics, and the metaphysics of nature / Bruce V. Foltz
Published Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press, 1995

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Description xvi, 202 pages ; 23 cm
Contents 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
Subject Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
Ecology -- Philosophy.
Environmental ethics -- History -- 20th century.
Philosophy of nature -- History -- 20th century.
Ecology.
LC no. 93005912
ISBN 0391038451
0391038982 (paperback)