Heidegger’s Ecological Turn: Community and Practice for Future Generations
About this ebook
Schalow’s emphasis on such key motifs as stewardship, dwelling, and "letting be" (Gelassenheit) serves to coalesce the problem of freedom in a new and innovative way, in order to expand the interpretive or hermeneutic horizon for re-examining Heidegger’s philosophy. By prioritizing a response to today’s environmental crisis and the possible impact upon future generations, the author traverses a divide within Heidegger scholarship by developing a deeper, critical outlook on his philosophy—without either reiterating standard interpretations or rejecting them wholesale. He develops a trans-human approach to ethics, which, by prioritizing the welfare of the earth, nature, and animals, counters the anthropocentric bias and destructive premise of modern technology.
Heidegger’s Ecological Turn will be of interest to Heidegger scholars and researchers working in phenomenology, hermeneutics, continental philosophy, and environmental philosophy.
About the author
Frank Schalow is Professor of Philosophy and University Research Professor at the University of New Orleans, USA. He is the co-editor of Heidegger Studies and the author of numerous books including the Historical Dictionary of Heidegger’s Philosophy, 3rd edition (2020), Toward a Phenomenology of Addiction: Embodiment, Technology, Transcendence (2017), and Departures: At the Crossroads between Heidegger and Kant (2013).
