Petrified Intelligence

This book is a critical introduction to Hegel’s metaphysics and philosophy of nature. My central aim is to show that Hegel’s philosophy can make an important contribution to contemporary thinking about the metaphysical and ethical status of nature. In particular, I want to suggest that his decisive contribution is to open up the philosophy of nature as a project and as a conceptual space occupying a distinctive region within the philosophical landscape.1 Hegel’s question concerning the possibility of a specifically philosophical approach to nature is not narrowly historical: above all, I wish to show that it is centrally relevant to environmental concerns. Insofar as environmental degradation stems from technological developments that ultimately derive from modern science, we may suspect that science embodies a problematic approach to the natural world.

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