The Barbarian Principle: Merleau-Ponty, Schelling, and the Question of Nature

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments We would like to raise a glass of Brunello in thanks to our colleagues and friends at both Seattle University and Gonzaga University in Florence for their ongoing support. We also would like to express our gratitude to Chiasmi International where an earlier version of Robert Vallier’s essay appeared as “Être Sauvage and the Barbaric Principle: Merleau-Ponty’s Reading of Schelling” (Chiasmi International, vol. 2 [2000], 83–107). Finally, at a time of unprecedented global rage against our earth, we would like to offer this volume as a small and properly barbarian contribution to what Gary Snyder felicitously dubbed a “practice of the wild.” xi ...