Michael Marder: 17 books
by Michael Marder
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Grafting: do we ever do anything other than that? And are we ever free from vegetal influences when we engage in its operations? For the philosopher Michael Marder, our reflections on vegetal life have a fundamental importance in how we can reflect on our own conceptions of ethics, politics, and philosophy...
Heidegger
Phenomenology, Ecology, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Understanding the political and ecological implications of Heidegger’s work without ignoring his noxious public engagements
The most controversial philosopher of the twentieth century, Martin Heidegger has influenced generations of intellectuals even as his involvement with Nazism and blatant...
Through Vegetal Being
Two Philosophical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Blossoming from a correspondence between Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder, Through Vegetal Being is an intense personal, philosophical, and political meditation on the significance of the vegetal for our lives, our ways of thinking, and our relations with human and nonhuman beings. The vegetal world...
Phenomena-Critique-Logos
The Project of Critical Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
One commonplace assumption in Continental philosophy circles today is that there is an unbridgeable gap between, on the one hand, Kantian and post-Kantian critical tradition in German thought and, on the other, Husserlian and post-Husserlian phenomenology.
*Phenomena-Critique-*Logos challenges...
Plant-Thinking
A Philosophy of Vegetal Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
The margins of philosophy are populated by non-human, non-animal living beings, including plants. While contemporary philosophers tend to refrain from raising ontological and ethical concerns with vegetal life, Michael Marder puts this life at the forefront of the current deconstruction of metaphysics....
Political Categories
Thinking Beyond Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Western philosophy has been dominated by the concept or the idea—the belief that there is one sovereign notion or singular principle that can make reality explicable and bring all that exists under its sway. In modern politics, this role is played by ideology. Left, right, or center, political schools...
Energy Dreams
Of Actuality
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The question of energy is among the most vital for the future of humanity and the flourishing of life on this planet. Yet, only very rarely (if at all) do we ask what energy is, what it means, what ends it serves, and how it is related to actuality, meaning-making, and instrumentality. Energy Dreams...
Pyropolitics
When the World is Ablaze
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
From the books and heretics burnt on the pyres of the Inquisition to self-immolations at protest rallies, from the massive burning of oil on the global scale to inflammatory speech, from the imagery of revolutionary sparks ready to ignite the spirits of the oppressed to car bombings in the Middle...
The Event of the Thing
Derrida's Post-Deconstructive Realism
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Jacques Derrida's writings often embed the key themes of deconstruction in a notion of the thing. The Event of the Thing is the most complete examination to date of Derrida's understanding of thinghood and its crucial role in psychoanalysis, ethics, literary theory, aesthetics, and Marxism.
Arguing...
The Philosopher's Plant
An Intellectual Herbarium
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Despite their conceptual allergy to vegetal life, philosophers have used germination, growth, blossoming, fruition, reproduction, and decay as illustrations of abstract concepts; mentioned plants in passing as the natural backdrops for dialogues, letters, and other compositions; spun elaborate allegories...
Eco-Deconstruction
Derrida and Environmental Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The contributors are an impressive group of philosophers and literary and cultural theorists.
by Dr. Michael Marder
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
No matter how much you fight against it, dust pervades everything. It gathers in even layers, adapting to the contours of things and marking the passage of time. In itself, it is also...
The Green Thread
Dialogues with the Vegetal World
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking...
by Inês Amorim, Vincent Barletta, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2019
Portuguese Literature and the Environment explores the relationship between Portuguese literature and the environment from Medieval times to the present. From the centrality of nature in Medieval poetry, through the bucolic verse of the Renaissance, all the way to the Romantic and post-Romantic nostalgia...
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