A Nonphilosophical Theory Of Nature Ecologies Of Thought

Anthony Paul

"The author shows that the old theological and philosophical ideas about the unnatural are no longer tenable. Parts of nature seem to be at war with one another - the human against the rest of the biosphere - and this is because our very understanding of the idea of nature, which we draw from philosophy and theology, has perpetuated that war. Smith argues that the very idea of nature must be rethought as ecological. Toward that purpose he uses the methodology of Francois Laruelle's non-philosophy to bring together the fields of philosophy, theology, and scientific ecology and treat them as ecological material. Out of this ecology of thought, a new theory of nature emerges for an ecological age."-- Publisher's description.