This edited collection is the first of two volumes offering critical philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary and historic accounts of living in accordance with the broad natural world as at the center of a good and wise life.

Acknowledgments Preface, Volume One Contributors Part 1 Mythic Origins of Nature and Humanity Reflection   The Story of Isis: How Did the Egyptian Goddess Become Unveiled?   Piotr Osóbka 1 Man in Nature/Nature in Man: The Experience of Life in Ancient Greece from the Mythological Perspective of Karl Kerényi   Arkadiusz Kubiak 2 On the Constellation of Myths: The Literary and Philosophical Project of Human Nature, Based on Works of Roberto Calasso   Adriana Wierzba 3 Planetary Myth: The Necessity or the Example of Contemporary Cultural Utopia in Joseph Campbell   Krzysztof Glod 4 Psychological Anthropology of the Early Slavs: A Naturalistic Slavic Conception of Human Development   Andrzej Pankalla, Konrad Kośnik and Jacek Stasiorczyk Part 2 Insights from Nature/Natural Insights 5 Man and Nature in the Painting of Caspar David Friedrich   Leon Miodoński 6 Body: My Place between Nature and Myself   Paweł Korobczak 7 Eating according to Nature: Justifying Robbery   Randall Auxier and Eli Kramer Part 3 Orphic and Promethean Perspectives on Nature 8 Contemplative Science: An Orphic Way of Living according to Nature for Facing the Environmental and Climate Crisis   Barbara Rogala 9 Between and Beyond the Promethean and the Orphic: On the Nature-Politics Relationship in the Anthropocene   Urszula Lisowska 10 Between Prometheus and Orpheus: The Naturalis Conversio from the Anthropocene to the Chthulucene   Gianfranco Ferraro 11 From Where Does One Speak of How Nature Speaks?   Lucio Angelo Privitello Index