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Living according to Nature. Volume Two: Nature and Culture
Series: - Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 402
- Central European Value Studies, Volume: 402
This edited collection is the second 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 currently located in Heidelberg, where 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.
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 currently located in Heidelberg, where 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.
Preface, Volume Two
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Part 1
The Relations of Nature and Culture
1 The Principle of Motion, Substantial Constitution, and Source of the Good Life: Thomas Aquinas’s Conception of Nature at the Crossroads of Physics, Metaphysics, and Anthropology
Michele Sciotti
2 On the Relation between Humans and Animals in the Context of Animal Trials
Wojciech Kilan
3 The Terms “Nature” and “Natural” in Psychoanalytical Conceptions: Freud and Jung
Ilona Błocian
4 The Poetic Life in Harmony with the Elements of Nature: Gaston Bachelard’s Tetralogy
Kamila Morawska
5 Resilience and Fragility of the City: A Case for the Philosophy of Urbanism
Adam Chmielewski
Part 2
Moving beyond the Nature/Culture Divide Reflection
6 In Search of Harmony between Nature and Culture: The Metaphysical Landscape of Bruno Latour’s Thought
Berenika Dyczek
7 The Riddle of “Living according to Nature” in the Light of the Sociology of Translation: Three Actors Instead of Two
Ewa Kwiatkowska
8 There Is No Natural Order: Critical Approaches to the Theme of “Accordance with Nature” in the Context of the Theory of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe
Karol Morawski
Part 3
Nature-Culture as a Spiritual Exercise
9 The Essays as Spiritual Exercises: Pierre Hadot, Reader of Montaigne
Simone D’Agostino
10 From the Secret of Nature to the Mystery of Being: Hadot on the Ethics and (Meta)Physics of Conversion in Antiquity and Contemporaneity
Matteo J. Stettler
11 Living according to Nature: Being, Phusis, and Conversion in the Thought of Pierre Hadot
Matthew Sharpe
Index
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Part 1
The Relations of Nature and Culture
1 The Principle of Motion, Substantial Constitution, and Source of the Good Life: Thomas Aquinas’s Conception of Nature at the Crossroads of Physics, Metaphysics, and Anthropology
Michele Sciotti
2 On the Relation between Humans and Animals in the Context of Animal Trials
Wojciech Kilan
3 The Terms “Nature” and “Natural” in Psychoanalytical Conceptions: Freud and Jung
Ilona Błocian
4 The Poetic Life in Harmony with the Elements of Nature: Gaston Bachelard’s Tetralogy
Kamila Morawska
5 Resilience and Fragility of the City: A Case for the Philosophy of Urbanism
Adam Chmielewski
Part 2
Moving beyond the Nature/Culture Divide Reflection
6 In Search of Harmony between Nature and Culture: The Metaphysical Landscape of Bruno Latour’s Thought
Berenika Dyczek
7 The Riddle of “Living according to Nature” in the Light of the Sociology of Translation: Three Actors Instead of Two
Ewa Kwiatkowska
8 There Is No Natural Order: Critical Approaches to the Theme of “Accordance with Nature” in the Context of the Theory of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe
Karol Morawski
Part 3
Nature-Culture as a Spiritual Exercise
9 The Essays as Spiritual Exercises: Pierre Hadot, Reader of Montaigne
Simone D’Agostino
10 From the Secret of Nature to the Mystery of Being: Hadot on the Ethics and (Meta)Physics of Conversion in Antiquity and Contemporaneity
Matteo J. Stettler
11 Living according to Nature: Being, Phusis, and Conversion in the Thought of Pierre Hadot
Matthew Sharpe
Index
This edited collection of two volume is of interest to scholars and students of philosophy as a way of life, and for interdisciplinary scholars working on a topic of immense interest given the climatic and environmental crises we face today.