Living according to Nature. Volume One: Myths, Insights, and Perspectives

Eli Kramer is Associate Director of the Cassirer Center and University Professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Wrocław. He specializes in metaphilosophy (philosophy as a way of life), intercultural philosophy, philosophy of culture, and process philosophy.Ilona Błocian is Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Wrocław. Her main interests include conceptions of the unconscious, myth, and philosophy of images. She is co-founder of the Center for Philosophy of Culture and the Cassirer Center. Her publications include Collective Structures of Imagination (2022) and Thought and Image (2023).Samuel Maruszewski is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Wrocław. He is working on his dissertation on embodied selfhood. His main interests include philosophy of culture, philosophy of mind, and philosophy as a way of life.

• AcknowledgmentsPreface, Volume OneContributorsPart 1Mythic Origins of Nature and Humanity ReflectionThe Story of Isis: How Did the Egyptian Goddess Become Unveiled?Piotr Osóbka1 Man in Nature/Nature in Man: The Experience of Life in Ancient Greece from the Mythological Perspective of Karl KerényiArkadiusz Kubiak2 On the Constellation of Myths: The Literary and Philosophical Project of Human Nature, Based on Works of Roberto CalassoAdriana Wierzba3 Planetary Myth: The Necessity or the Example of Contemporary Cultural Utopia in Joseph CampbellKrzysztof Glod4 Psychological Anthropology of the Early Slavs: A Naturalistic Slavic Conception of Human DevelopmentAndrzej Pankalla, Konrad Kośnik and Jacek StasiorczykPart 2Insights from Nature/Natural Insights5 Man and Nature in the Painting of Caspar David FriedrichLeon Miodoński6 Body: My Place between Nature and MyselfPaweł Korobczak7 Eating according to Nature: Justifying RobberyRandall Auxier and Eli KramerPart 3Orphic and Promethean Perspectives on Nature8 Contemplative Science: An Orphic Way of Living according to Nature for Facing the Environmental and Climate CrisisBarbara Rogala9 Between and Beyond the Promethean and the Orphic: On the Nature-Politics Relationship in the AnthropoceneUrszula Lisowska10 Between Prometheus and Orpheus: The Naturalis Conversio from the Anthropocene to the ChthuluceneGianfranco Ferraro11 From Where Does One Speak of How Nature Speaks?Lucio Angelo PrivitelloIndex