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  • 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

    $35.99 CAD

  • 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

    $34.39 CAD

  • The Event of the Thing

    Derrida's Post-Deconstructive Realism

    by Michael Marder ...
    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 that the thing, as a figure of otherness, destabilizes the metaphysical edifice it underlies, Michael ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • 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

    $27.99 CAD

  • Research Methods for Science

    by Michael P. Marder ...
    A unique introduction to the design, analysis, and presentation of scientific projects, this is an essential textbook for undergraduate majors in science and mathematics. The textbook gives an overview of the main methods used in scientific research, including hypothesis testing, the measurement of functional relationships, and observational research. It describes important features of ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • 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

    $31.99 CAD

  • Heidegger

    Phenomenology, Ecology, Politics

    by Michael Marder ...
    Understanding the political and ecological implications of Heidegger’s work without ignoring his noxious public engagementsThe most controversial philosopher of the twentieth century, Martin Heidegger has influenced generations of intellectuals even as his involvement with Nazism and blatant anti-Semitism, made even clearer after the publication of his Black Notebooks, have recently prompted some ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Phoenix Complex

    A Philosophy of Nature

    by Michael Marder ...
    An innovative, wide-ranging consideration of the global ecological crisis and its deep philosophical and theological roots.Global crises, from melting Arctic ice to ecosystem collapse and the sixth mass extinction, challenge our age-old belief in nature as a phoenix with an infinite ability to regenerate itself from the ashes of destruction. Moving from antiquity to the present and back, Michael ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Energy Dreams

    Of Actuality

    by Michael Marder ...
    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 interrogates the ontology of energy from the first coinage of the word energeia by Aristotle to the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Political Categories

    Thinking Beyond Concepts

    by Michael Marder ...
    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 of thought share a metaphysics of simplification. We internalize a dominant, largely unnoticeable ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Political Categories

    Thinking Beyond Concepts

    by Michael Marder ...
    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 of thought share a metaphysics of simplification. We internalize a dominant, largely unnoticeable ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • 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

    $17.59 CAD