Nature and spirit

Ullrich Melle

pp. 15-35

in: Thomas Nenon, Lester Embree (eds), Issues in Husserl's Ideas II, Berlin, Springer, 1996

Abstract

War or peace, increasing alienation or reconciliation, management of nature or resacralisation of nature, transgenetic pigs or deep ecological identification with wild nature: in the face of the global ecological crisis the problem of nature and spirit poses itself with great urgency. The Promethean project of modernity of a total subjugation of the earth by the human spirit has carried humankind to the brink of the abyss: the destruction of its natural environment.