Living according to Nature. Volume One: Myths, Insights, and Perspectives

Eli Kramer, Ilona Błocian, Samuel Maruszewski (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

266 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
9789004713284 (ISBN)

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This edited collection is the first of two volumes offering critical philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary and historic accounts of living in accordance with the broad natural world as at the center of a good and wise life. It also explores the meaning and idea of nature in these different perspectives as it relates to and is distinguished from cultural life. It builds on the work of Pierre Hadot and others on the connection that philosophers, mystics, scholars, and others (ancient and modern) have seen between nature (as articulated in physics, metaphysics, ontologies, ecologies, biologies, and evolutionary theories) and forms of self-communal cultivation.

Eli Kramer is Associate Director of the Cassirer Center and University Professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Wrocław. He specializes in metaphilosophy (philosophy as a way of life), intercultural philosophy, philosophy of culture, and process philosophy. Ilona Błocian is Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Wrocław. Her main interests include conceptions of the unconscious, myth, and philosophy of images. She is co-founder of the Center for Philosophy of Culture and the Cassirer Center. Her publications include Collective Structures of Imagination (2022) and Thought and Image (2023). Samuel Maruszewski is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Wrocław. He is working on his dissertation on embodied selfhood. His main interests include philosophy of culture, philosophy of mind, and philosophy as a way of life.

Acknowledgments

Preface, Volume One

Contributors

Part 1

Mythic Origins of Nature and Humanity Reflection

The Story of Isis: How Did the Egyptian Goddess Become Unveiled?

Piotr Osóbka

1 Man in Nature/Nature in Man: The Experience of Life in Ancient Greece from the Mythological Perspective of Karl Kerényi

Arkadiusz Kubiak

2 On the Constellation of Myths: The Literary and Philosophical Project of Human Nature, Based on Works of Roberto Calasso

Adriana Wierzba

3 Planetary Myth: The Necessity or the Example of Contemporary Cultural Utopia in Joseph Campbell

Krzysztof Glod

4 Psychological Anthropology of the Early Slavs: A Naturalistic Slavic Conception of Human Development

Andrzej Pankalla, Konrad Kośnik and Jacek Stasiorczyk

Part 2

Insights from Nature/Natural Insights

5 Man and Nature in the Painting of Caspar David Friedrich

Leon Miodoński

6 Body: My Place between Nature and Myself

Paweł Korobczak

7 Eating according to Nature: Justifying Robbery

Randall Auxier and Eli Kramer

Part 3

Orphic and Promethean Perspectives on Nature

8 Contemplative Science: An Orphic Way of Living according to Nature for Facing the Environmental and Climate Crisis

Barbara Rogala

9 Between and Beyond the Promethean and the Orphic: On the Nature-Politics Relationship in the Anthropocene

Urszula Lisowska

10 Between Prometheus and Orpheus: The Naturalis Conversio from the Anthropocene to the Chthulucene

Gianfranco Ferraro

11 From Where Does One Speak of How Nature Speaks?

Lucio Angelo Privitello

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.02.2025
Reihe/Serie	Central European Value Studies ; 401
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	571 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
ISBN-13	9789004713284 / 9789004713284
Zustand	Neuware