Nature as Historical Experience

The volume ‘Nature as Historical Experience’ explores, from an interdisciplinary perspective, how nature has been historically experienced, conceptualized, perceived, and shaped as an integral part of human life – and how it continously affects human perception, thought, experience, systems of order, and historicity. The contributions offer philosophical, historical, and anthropological approaches to nature and its relation to history – for instance, as a sphere of resonance, a precondition of historical experience, an object of scientific appropriation, a culturally shaped order, a managed resource, or a bodily experienced phenomenon of illness and meaning. With contributions by Hartmut Rosa, Philippe Descola, Bruno Latour, and others, the volume brings together theoretically and historically grounded perspectives on a significant subject in contemporary ecological, social, and ontological debates.