Michael Marder Books

Focusing on the concept of sexuate difference, this book envisions a more just and ecologically aware world. It features original texts from Luce Irigaray's students and collaborators, alongside an introduction by Irigaray herself, offering diverse perspectives on creating a society that values and thrives on gender diversity. The work encourages readers to rethink societal structures and foster a deeper connection to ecological principles through the lens of gender.

Focusing on a decade of Michael Marder's insights, this work explores a time marked by significant global upheaval across various domains, including intellectual discourse, cultural shifts, technological advancements, and political changes. It highlights Marder's role as a public intellectual during these transformative years, offering a critical examination of the challenges and developments that shaped the contemporary landscape.

A highly original reading of the history of phenomenology that offers a new systematic concept of critique.

Plants in Place is a collaborative study of vegetal phenomenology at the intersection of Edward S. Casey’s phenomenology of place and Michael Marder’s plant-thinking.

Energy Dreams interrogates the ontology of energy from the first coinage of the word energeia by Aristotle to the current practice of fracking and the popularity of energy drinks.

Groundless Existence discusses the implicit phenomenological and existential foundations of Schmitt's political philosophy. The book's unique contribution lies in its claim that Schmitt decisively breaks with the metaphysical tradition and predicates the political on the 'groundless' categories of existence, including risk, decision, and agonism. This argument is substantiated by both tacit and explicit existentialist and phenomenological underpinnings of Schmitt's work, discussed here for the first time in book form.The book provides an insight into the implications of Schmitt's thought reconceptualized in the light of contemporary political developments. An essential text for anyone interested in the political theory of Carl Schmitt, it offers a new reading of Schmitt's work against the double background of phenomenology and existentialism.-- Provided by Publisher

Exploring the concept of thinghood, this examination delves into Jacques Derrida's interpretations and their significance across various fields, including psychoanalysis, ethics, literary theory, aesthetics, and Marxism. The work highlights how Derrida's deconstruction philosophy intertwines with the notion of the "thing," offering a comprehensive analysis that enhances understanding of his influential ideas.

We entrust readers with thirty fragments of reflections, meditations, recollections, and images - one for each year that has passed since the explosion that rocked and destroyed a part of the Chernobyl nuclear power station in April 1986. The aesthetic visions, thoughts, and experiences that have made their way into this book hover in a grey region between the singular and self-enclosed, on the one hand, and the generally applicable and universal, on the other. Through words and images, we wish to contribute our humble share to a collaborative grappling with the event of Chernobyl. Unthinkable and unrepresentable as it is, we insist on the need to reflect upon, signify, and symbolize it, taking stock of the consciousness it fragmented and, perhaps, cultivating another, more environmentally attuned way of living.

Michael Marder proposes a new methodology for political science and philosophy, one which he terms categorial thinking. Under this lens, the political appears not as a singular concept but as a family of categories, allowing room for new, plural, and often antagonistic ideas about the state, the people, sovereignty, and power.