The Revelation of Nature / Edition 1

by Paul Matthews

Overview

This title was first published in 2001. "The Revelation of Nature" embraces pragmatism, aesthetics and metaphysics in an effort to narrate a fundamental relationship between the contemporary world and the natural source and site for any world of meaning. Beginning with an exploration of Heidegger's seminal insight into the way we exist - that human existence must be understood in its everydayness - Matthews links these ideas to Heidegger's interpretation of the development of Western history in terms of its grounding metaphysical determinations to do with truth, reality and the nature of things. Matthews concludes that our everyday lives are informed and shaped by intellectual precepts and normative modes of behaviour that promote the combination and enslavement of both nature and ourselves within a mass technological grid. This book breaks new ground in theology, without underpinning the analysis with a particular religious viewpoint.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367249502
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/31/2021
Series:	Routledge Revivals
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, Part I Heidegger and the Emergence of Technodasein, Part II Thinking Heidegger Further: The Potential for Umweltdasein, Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

I think very highly of this work. Our self-understanding, which has led to our masterful misuse of nature, is analysed through a Heideggerian approach. Matthews argues that the environmental crisis is itself a revelation to us of our wayward treatment of it, summoning us to a change of life.

Adrian Thatcher