Conclusion

Abstract

The ideas sketched in the chapters in this book are simple materials. Understood under the immanental ecology put forth in chapter 9, aspects may be extracted from their ecosystem and put into a relationship with other materials. By way of a conclusion I will now present a theory of the identity of nature constructed from these materials. I remind the reader of the ending that we already gave away in the introduction, for this theory of nature understands the creatural as subject of nature, the chimera of God or Nature as non-thetic transcendence of nature, and the One as radical immanence of nature. In that same introduction I claimed that this theory would come to have a determinate meaning by the end of the book and indeed what has thus far been discussed has been necessary for the production of this theory. For this theory of nature has grown out of the ecosystems (of) thought studied in the last chapter by way of a unified theory of philosophical theology and ecology (which is, of course, itself part of an ecosystem (of) thought as well) developed in part III. This unified theory would not have been possible without the reconception of the division of labor between philosophy and science that Laruelle constructed in his non-philosophy as explained in part II, especially chapter 6. So, in this conclusion I will simply act as an ecologist of thought.