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THE ELEMENTAL TURN
Author(s) -
SALLIS JOHN
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the southern journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2041-6962
pISSN - 0038-4283
DOI - 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2012.00102.x
Subject(s) - turn (biochemistry) , task (project management) , natural (archaeology) , epistemology , engineering , chemistry , history , philosophy , systems engineering , archaeology , biochemistry
By referring to the present environmental “crisis,” this essay presents the turn to elemental nature as a task that thinking must undertake. What this turn involves is clarified by means of a series of distinctions between things and natural elements.