Nature As Limit : : Prolegomena to Ecological Thinking in Heidegger.

• VerfasserIn: Fontini, James,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge : : BRILL,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (333 pages)

Nature as Limit provides an account of Nature in terms of the collapse of the subject-object binary, presenting Heidegger's work as a series of prolegomena toward a prospective ecological thought. This begins with a critical re-evaluation of the homology Heidegger discovers between the essence...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations, etc.
• Introduction
• I. The Nature of the Work in Front of You
• II. The 'Structural Development' of Heidegger's Thought
• III. Regarding the Philological and Hermeneutic Nature of Phenomenological Analysis
• IV. Nature, Practice, and the Destruction of Metaphysics
• Early Hope for a Practical Alternative
• Anarchy and the Western Front
• The Question of Nature
• Part I. Technic and Nature
• Chapter 1. Metaphysics as Construct and Autonomy
• 1.1 The Technological Constant in Metaphysics
• 1.2 Physis contra Technē (kata ton logon)
• 1.3 Metaphysical Structure and its Double
• Impossible Union: Physis and Logos
• An Instrumental Split
• Producing the Double
• Violent Appropriations
• Days at the Undying Academy
• 1.4 Antecedence and Construction
• Technical (Epi)Genesis
• 'Formal' Self-Sufficiency
• Some Remarks
• Chapter 2. Das Ge-stell as 'Technical Nature' and (as) Metaphysics
• 2.1 History and Revelatory Modalities
• 2.2 The End/s of Possibility
• Consummate Recursion
• The Open Already
• Possibility or Probability?
• Knowing What is Known
• 2.3 Configurations and Simulations
• Configuring and Structural Absence
• Simulation and 'Freedom'
• Philosophy and Thinking
• Some Remarks
• Appendix 1. Hin und Her
• Part II. Nature and Topology
• Chapter 3. "Topology": Toward a 'Non-Metaphysical' Thinking of Nature
• 3.1 Gnostic Questions of the Limit (Introduction)
• 3.2 Prolegomatics for Topos
• How Many Beginnings? (Preliminaries)
• Aristotle's Boat (Hölderlin's Eyes)
• Thing:Language
• Locale:Limit
• A Topological Formula?
• The 'Law' of Nature?
• The Makings of the Matrix
• Topos as World Filter
• 3.3 Interlude: Heidegger on Difference as the Immanence of the Limit
• 3.4 Prolegomatics for (Topological?) Orientation (Practice?).
• Poetic Measure I
• Proximity and Knowing
• Topos as Four Dimensional Time
• In Death, the Astral Human
• Poetic Measure II
• A Place Only for the Foreign
• Appendix 2. Insert or Appendix 4 to Satz der Identität
• Bibliography
• Index.