Ontologies of Nature

Part I. Greek Philosophies of “Physis”

1. Architecture and Eternity: Physis in Nietzsche and Empedocles
Michael M. Shaw

2. The Ambivalence of Eros: Plato’s Natural Beginning(s)
Josh Hayes

3. Folding Nature Back Upon Itself: Aristotle and the Rebirth of Physis

Marjolein Oele

Part II. The Modern Turn in Nature

4. Kant’s “Other Nature”
Angelica Nuzzo

5. Hegel’s Anti-ontology of Nature
Sebastian Rand

6. Novalis, Nature, and the Absolute
Jane Kneller

Part III. Phenomenological Thinkers on Nature

7. Nature (or Not) in Heidegger
Nancy J. Holland

8. Stratification, Dependence, and Nonanthropocentrism: Nicolai Hartmann’s Critical Ontology
Keith Peterson

9. Naturalism, Estrangement, and Resistance: On the Lived Senses of Nature
Ted Toadvine

Part IV. Pre- and Post-phenomenological Thinkers on Nature

10. An Ecology of the Future: Nietzsche and Ecological Restoration
Gerard Kuperus

11. Precarious Communities: Towards a Phenomenology of Extinction
Brett Buchanan

12. When Washing Rice, Know That the Water Is Your Own Life: An Essay on Dōgen in the Age of Fast Food
Jason M. Wirth

13. Given to Bewilderment, Hand to Limb
H. Peter Steeves

Keywords: Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Nature, History of Philosophy