ISBN10: 0823213633, ISBN13: 9780823213634, [publisher: Fordham University Press, New York] Softcover Paperback. Nature and Spirit: An Essay in Ecstatic Naturalism develops an enlarged conception of nature that in turn calls for a transformed naturalism. Unline more descriptive naturalisms, such as those by Dewey, Santayana, and Buchler, ecstatic naturalism works out of the fundamental ontological difference between nature naturing(natura naturans) and nature natured (natura naturata). This difference underlies all other variations within a generic conception of nature. The spirit operates within a generic conception of nature. The spirit operates within a fragmented nature and has its own unique locations. Ecstatic naturalism does not eulogize spirit nor impose a process theodicy upon nature as a whole but carefully describes the ways in which spirit emerges from finite locations within the world. Methodologically, the text radically regrounds phenomenology so that it can work more closely with a metaphysics seeking the most generic forms of nature. The move from a transcendental phenomenology, which rests upon a profound misconception of the parcel of a radicalized naturalism, makes it possible to show how all orders of relevance are related to nature and to the spirit. This, in turn relocates the human process, with its dialectical tension between finitude and transendence, and places the self fully within the emergent structures of the community of interpreters ...

ISBN10: 0823213633, ISBN13: 9780823213634, [publisher: Fordham University Press 2006-05-15, New York] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2006]

Fordham University Press , pp. 207 2nd Edition . Papeback. New. Fordham University Press ISBN 0823213633 9780823213634 [US]