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9Exilic EcologiesPhilosophies 8 (5): 95. 2023.A term of relatively recent mintage, coined by German scientist Ernst Haeckel in 1866, ecology draws on ancient Greek to establish and consolidate its meaning. Although scholars all too often overlook it, the anachronistic rise of ecology in its semantic and conceptual determinations is noteworthy. Formed by analogy with economy, the word may be translated as “the articulation of a dwelling”, the logos of oikos. Here, I argue not only that a vast majority of ecosystems on the planet are subject …Read more
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9Energy Dreams: Of ActualityColumbia University Press. 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 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." Its sustained, multi-disciplina…Read more
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86 Ecology as EventIn Matthias Fritsch, Philippe Lynes & David Wood (eds.), Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy, Fordham University Press. pp. 141-164. 2018.
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8The future and its enemies: In defense of political hopeContemporary Political Theory 13 (3). 2014.
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8AcknowledgmentsIn The Event of the Thing: Derrida's Post-Deconstructive Realism, University of Toronto. 2009.
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7Abbreviations of Titles of Works by DerridaIn The Event of the Thing: Derrida's Post-Deconstructive Realism, University of Toronto. 2009.
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71. The Event of the Thing: ‘Ereignis in Abyss’In The Event of the Thing: Derrida's Post-Deconstructive Realism, University of Toronto. pp. 1-34. 2009.
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7Political Categories: Thinking Beyond ConceptsColumbia University Press. 2018.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 framework, oblivious to complex, plural, and occasionally conflicting or mutually contradictory exp…Read more
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7To Open a Site (with Heidegger)Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (1): 197-217. 2016.Drawing on the texts of Martin Heidegger, at times interpreted against the grain, I tackle the relation between ecology and economy in our era of rampant economism. I begin by outlining the ecological and economic variations on ethics and politics, with the view to the logos and nomos of dwelling (oikos). Thereafter, I consider the rise of a worldless, homeless world from the undue emphasis placed on nomos, which is but the active (actively gathering) dimension of logos. This lopsidedness, I arg…Read more
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7Grafts: writings on plantsUnivocal. 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 in general. Taking as his starting point the simple vegetal conception of grafting, Marder guides the reader through his concise and numerous reflections on what could be described as a vegeta…Read more
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6Introduction: Hoc nihil ad remIn The Event of the Thing: Derrida's Post-Deconstructive Realism, University of Toronto. 2009.
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6Existential Utopia: New Perspectives on Utopian Thought (edited book)Continuum. 2011.Radical political thought of the 20th century was dominated by utopia, but the failure of communism in Eastern Europe and its disavowal in China has brought on the need for a new model of utopian thought. This book thus seeks to redefine the concept of utopia and bring it to bear on today's politics. The original essays, contributed by key thinkers such as Gianni Vattimo and Jean-Luc Nancy, highlight the connection between utopian theory and practice. The book reassesses the legacy of utopia and…Read more
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6FrontmatterIn The Event of the Thing: Derrida's Post-Deconstructive Realism, University of Toronto. 2009.
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6Time Is a PlantBRILL. 2023.A far-reaching reformulation of the philosophy of time guided by vegetal processes, rhythms, tempos, and shapes.
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6Heidegger: phenomenology, ecology, politicsUniversity of Minnesota Press. 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 anti-Semitism, made even clearer after the publication of his Black Notebooks, have recently prompted some to discard his contributions entirely. For Michael Marder, Heidegger's thought remains critical for…Read more
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6Carl Schmitt and the Risk of the PoliticalTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2005 (132): 5-24. 2005.
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5Heidegger Tonight: A Philosophical DialogueDiacritics 50 (2): 26-37. 2022.Abstract:Michael Marder and Giovanbattista Tusa discuss the "today" and "tonight" in Heidegger's thinking and beyond.
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4Building a new world: Luce Irigaray: teaching II (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2015.In this volume young researchers endeavour to build a new world. They neither confine themselves to criticism, resentment and disenchantment nor submit to traditional conceptions of truth, past moral imperatives and supra-sensitive ideals alone. Here, young researchers invent another way of thinking, believing, making art, or being political players. They can be seen as inaugurating an epoch when the cultivation of nature as an environment encompassing natural belonging allows for a world-wide c…Read more
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4Contemporanea: a glossary for the twenty-first century (edited book)The MIT Press. 2024.A glossary of conceptual terms (with short essay-entries explaining the reasons) for the 21st century (and how we may work through this century) by leading names in philosophy and cultural studies.
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4Prolegômenos Schmittianos à energia política: Soberania, Legitimidade, RepresentaçãoRevista de Filosofia Aurora 29 (47). 2017.
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3Pyropolitics in the World AblazeRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2020.This new edition includes recent examples of the uses and accusations of ‘incendiary speech’ both by Donald Trump and by European populist right and exploration of threats of global warming that have now reached a turning point in our collective relation to the dangers and promises of fire.
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3Conclusion: Post-Deconstructive Realism: Of What RemainsIn The Event of the Thing: Derrida's Post-Deconstructive Realism, University of Toronto. pp. 135-142. 2009.
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3Chapter Twelve From Plant ThinkingIn Giovanni Aloi & Susan McHugh (eds.), Posthumanism in art and science: a reader, Columbia University Press. pp. 87-90. 2021.
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3Hegel's energy: a reading of The phenomenology of spiritNorthwestern University Press. 2021.This book integrates Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit and contemporary conversations about energy. By interpreting actuality as energy in the Hegelian corpus, the author provides a new lens for understanding the dialectical project and the energy⁰́₁starved condition of our contemporaneity.
Areas of Interest
20th Century Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |