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By Robert S. Corrington

Is nothingness present in nature or is it in a few realm disconnected from nature? Nature and Nothingness: An Essay in Ordinal Phenomenology argues for the previous and explores 4 forms of nothingness as present in nature: holes in nature, totalizing nothingness in horror, naturing nothingness, and encompassing nothingness. utilizing ordinal phenomenology, Robert S. Corrington unearths the nice perennial fissuring in the one nature that there's. The booklet contains a particular research of spiritual violence because it correlates to the hoes in nature, equivalent to nervousness, bereavement, loss, worry of fragmentation, and lack of id. It additionally examines a number of the ways that horror is encountered in a literary context, utilizing the paintings of Edgar Allen Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. The research is comparative and uses feminist philosophy in addition to Buddhist, Taoist, theosophical, and American philosophy. utilizing assets from ecstatic naturalism and deep pantheism, Corrington argues that notwithstanding nothingness takes many varieties, they're all guises of an identical great Nothingness.

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