A Naturphilosophie is a rethinking the natural world and humanity’s deep connections with it that is critical of, and oppositional to, the dominant way of the human understanding of the natural world: eg., the Cartesian conception of a mechanised nature, the human domination of nature, the commodification of nature by capital, and using nature for human consumption.
This rethinking is informed by both pre-modern Japanese aesthetics with its emphasis on the flux and imperfection of nature (wabi-sabi), the pathos of things (mono no aware) simplicity (Wabi) and F.W.J. von Schelling’s philosophy of nature that was attentive to nature’s self-organizing, history, emergence and becoming.
