Table of Contents

List of Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Renewing the Philosophy of Nature; 1. Nature as Gestalt and Melody; The Structures of Behavior; Physical, Vital, and Mental Gestalts; The Problem of Perception; The Historicity of Consciousness; 2. Radical Reflection and the Resistance of Things; Perceptual dialogue and the "Natural Self"; Radical Reflection and Phenomenology; The Nature of Reflection; 3. Animality; Ontological Exceptionalism in Phenomenology; Human-Animal Intertwining; 4. The Space of Intentionality and the Orientation of Being; 5. The Human-Nature Chiasm; The Chiasm of Sentient and Sensible; Ontological Diplopia and the Phenomenological Reduction; The Duplicity of the Thing; Good Error and the Expression of Nature.

About the Author

Ted Toadvine is an assistant professor of philosophy and environmental studies at University of Oregon. Leonard Lawlor is Faudree-Hardin University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis.