Nature as Limit Prolegomena to Ecological Thinking in Heidegger James Fontini

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fontini, James, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phenomenology.

Technology.

Physis.

Environmental Humanities.

Poetry.

Hermeneutics.

Gnosis.

Naturalism.

Immanence.

Ecosophy.

Local Subjects:

Phenomenology.

Technology.

Physis.

Environmental Humanities.

Poetry.

Hermeneutics.

Gnosis.

Naturalism.

Immanence.

Ecosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Paderborn Brill | Fink 2022

Biography/History:

James Fontini is a philosopher and translator affiliated with the Universität der Künste Berlin.

Summary:

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 of technology and the trajectory of Western metaphysics, with special attention paid to his return to Aristotle’s Physics in 1939. Reimagining technics and our understanding of Nature as ‘technical image’, the book examines Nature as the occurrence of (de)limitation. An uncapturable immanence in the field of total phenomena, Nature is the incompletedness of any naturalism, an understanding that raises strange and compelling questions about space, time, and history. Nature as Limit confronts Heidegger’s use of language on its own terms, exploring the full breadth of its intention and offering a demystification of that language, a reappraisal that offers a new lexicon for future readers.

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Fontini, James Nature As Limit

ISBN:

9783846767252

3846767255

OCLC:

1344160590

Publisher Number:

9783846767252