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  • Dust

    by Dr. Michael Marder ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    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 a gathering place, a random community of what has been and what is yet to be, a catalog of traces and a set of ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Plants in Place

    A Phenomenology of the Vegetal

    by Edward S. Casey, Michael Marder ...
    Series series Critical Life Studies
    Plants are commonly considered immobile, in contrast to humans and other animals. But vegetal existence involves many place-based forms of change: stems growing upward, roots spreading outward, fronds unfurling in response to sunlight, seeds traveling across wide distances, and other intricate relationships with the surrounding world. How do plants as sessile, growing, decaying, and metamorphosing ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Through Vegetal Being

    Two Philosophical Perspectives

    by Luce Irigaray, Michael Marder ...
    Series series Critical Life Studies
    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 has the potential to rescue our planet and our species and offers us a way to abandon past ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Plant-Thinking

    A Philosophy of Vegetal Life

    by Michael Marder ...
    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. He identifies the existential features of plant behavior and the vegetal heritage of human ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Contemporanea

    A Glossary for the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Michael Marder, Giovanbattista Tusa ...
    A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century.Contemporanea is a nascent lexicon for the twenty-first century edited by seasoned philosophers and authors Michael Marder and Giovanbattista Tusa. The collection showcases perspectives from a range of noteworthy thinkers in philosophy ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Deconstructing Zionism

    A Critique of Political Metaphysics

    Edited by Gianni Vattimo, Dr. Michael Marder ...
    Series series Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy
    This volume in the Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy series provides a political and philosophical critique of Zionism.While other nationalisms seem to have adapted to twenty-first century realities and shifting notions of state and nation, Zionism has largely remained tethered to a nineteenth century mentality, including the glorification of the state as the only means of expressing ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The Philosopher's Plant

    An Intellectual Herbarium

    by Michael Marder ...
    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 out of flowers, trees, and even grass; and recommended appropriate medicinal, dietary, and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Green Thread

    Dialogues with the Vegetal World

    by Tom Bristow, Pansy Duncan, Laurent Mignonneau, Guinevere Narraway, Stefan Rieger, Jennifer Schell, Christa Sommerer, Graig Uhlin, Florian Weil, Gioia Woods, Alan Read, Andrew Howe, Hannah Stark, Dr. Michael Marder ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    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 autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, intelligence.The leading metaphor of the book—“the green thread ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Eco-Freud From A to Z

    by Dr. Michael Marder ...
    An unprecedented conceptual portrait of Freud as an ecological thinker, this book analyzes our current approaches to ecology and the environmental crisis through the lens of psychoanalysis. Conceived as a theoretical tool-kit, the alphabetically arranged entries-from “Geo-psycho-analysis” to “Trauma extensions” and from “Fetishism and the Climate” to “Obsessive Self-Blaming”-guide the reader ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • Green Mass

    The Ecological Theology of St. Hildegard of Bingen

    by Michael Marder ...
    Green Mass is a meditation on—and with—twelfth-century Christian mystic and polymath Saint Hildegard of Bingen. Attending to Hildegard's vegetal vision, which greens theological tradition and imbues plant life with spirit, philosopher Michael Marder uncovers a verdant mode of thinking. The book stages a fresh encounter between present-day and premodern concerns, ecology and theology, philosophy ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Metamorphoses Reimagined

    by Michael Marder ...
    In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, existence is perpetual transformation. Humans and gods become plants and animals, stones and stars—or something in between. No rigid distinctions remain untroubled. In his own time and in ours, Ovid’s work challenges fundamental assumptions about the universe and humans’ place in it.Metamorphoses Reimagined offers a twenty-first-century retelling of Ovid’s masterpiece that ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Philosophy for Passengers

    by Michael Marder, Tomas Saraceno ...
    A philosophical guide to passengerhood, with reflections on time, space, existence, boredom, our sense of self, and our sense of the senses.While there are entire bookstore sections—and even entire bookstores—devoted to travel, there have been few books on the universal experience of being a passenger. With this book, philosopher Michael Marder fills the gap, offering a philosophical guide to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD