@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt13x05nt.12, ISBN = {9780823254644}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt13x05nt.12}, abstract = {It was Heidegger who first made “the earth” a possible topic for serious philosophical inquiry. His former student, Hans-Georg Gadamer, vividly describes the philosophical “sensation” that was generated by the “new and startling” concept of “earth,” as it was introduced in several 1936 presentations of what was to later become “The Origin of the Work of Art.”³ Yet Heidegger was by no means the first philosopher to use the word in a philosophical context. For example, in the work of Nietzsche,die Erdeanddas Irdische(earth and the earthly) play a crucial part in the unfolding of his metaphysics,}, bookauthor = {Bruce V. Foltz}, booktitle = {The Noetics of Nature: Environmental Philosophy and the Holy Beauty of the Visible}, pages = {158--174}, publisher = {Fordham University Press}, title = {Seeing Nature: Theōria Physikē in the Thought of St. Maximos the Confessor}, year = {2014} }