The Memory of the World: Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology - Couverture souple

Toadvine, Ted

 
9781517916008: The Memory of the World: Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology
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ISBN 10 : 1517916003 ISBN 13 : 9781517916008
Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2024

Synopsis

Advancing a phenomenological approach to deep time

Our imagination today is dominated by the end of the world, from sci-fi and climate fiction to actual predictions of biodiversity collapse, climate disruption, and the emergence of the Anthropocene. This obsession with the world's precarity, The Memory of the World contends, relies on a flawed understanding of time that neglects the past and present with the goal of managing the future. Not only does this mislead sustainability efforts, it diminishes our encounters with the world and with human and nonhuman others.

Here, Ted Toadvine takes a phenomenological approach to deep time to show how our apocalyptic imagination forgets the sublime and uncanny dimensions of the geological past and far future. Guided by original readings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, and others, he suggests that reconciling our embodied lives with the memory of the earth transforms our relationship with materiality, other forms of life, and the unprecedented future.

Integrating insights from phenomenology, deconstruction, critical animal studies, and new materialism, The Memory of the World argues for a new philosophy of time that takes seriously the multiple, pleated, and entangled temporal events spanning cosmic, geological, evolutionary, and human durations.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ted Toadvine is Nancy Tuana Director of the Rock Ethics Institute and associate professor of philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University. He is author of Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Nature and editor or translator of six books, including The Merleau-Ponty Reader and Eco-Phenomenology: Back to the Earth Itself.

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Éditeur
University of Minnesota Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1517916003
ISBN 13 
9781517916008
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
344
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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