With Nature Nature Philosophy as Poetics Through Schelling, Heidegger, Benjamin and Nancy

About this book

With Nature provides new ways to think about our relationship with nature in today's technologically mediated culture. Warwick Mules makes original connections with German critical philosophy and French poststructuralism in order to examine the effects of technology on our interactions with the natural world. In so doing, the author proposes a new way of thinking about the eco-self in terms of a careful sharing of the world with both human and non human beings. With Nature ultimately argues for a poetics of everyday life that affirms the place of the human-nature relation as a creative and productive site for ecological self-renewal and redirection.

Contents

Preface           
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Wanted – A Nature Philosophy

Part 1: The Things of Nature
1. Nature Otherwise
2. Saying Nature

Part 2: Nature Philosophy
3. Schelling after Kant
4. Unground
5. Positive Freedom
6. Virtual Nature

Part 3: Poetics
7. Heidegger’s Thing
8. Poetics: Benjamin and Celan

Part 4: Technology
9. Benjamin: Collapsing Nature
10. Nancy: Renaturing and Bio Art

Conclusion: Towards Ecopoetics

References
Notes
Index

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Biography

Warwick Mules is an honorary research fellow in the School of English, Media Studies, and Art History at the University of Queensland.