Michael Marder

Michael Marder
Born	(1980-05-03) May 3, 1980 Moscow, Russia
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental Philosophy
Influences Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, St. Augustine, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz, Immanuel Kant, G.W.F. Hegel, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida
Website
www.michaelmarder.org

Michael Marder (born (1980-05-03)May 3, 1980) is Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy ^[1] at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz. He works in the phenomenological tradition of Continental philosophy, environmental thought, and political philosophy.^[2] He also claims there are ethical concerns surrounding plant life and eating plants.

Education and academic work

Marder studied at universities in Canada and the US. He received his PhD in Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City.^[3] Marder carried out post-doctoral research in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, and taught at Georgetown University, George Washington University, and St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan.^[4][5] Prior to accepting the Ikerbasque research professorship at the University of the Basque Country, he carried out research in phenomenology (philosophy) as an FCT fellow at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and held the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.^[6]

Philosophical contributions

Marder has developed a philosophy of plants.^[7] He argues that, while philosophers tend to refrain from raising ontological and ethical concerns with plant life, it is necessary to put this life at the forefront of the deconstruction of Western metaphysics. Marder has recently written on the ethical implications of what he calls plant-thinking.^[8][9]

He has also made contributions to contemporary political thought, phenomenology, theory of utopia, and deconstruction, with original studies of Jacques Derrida, Carl Schmitt, critical phenomenological tradition, and pyropolitics, or "the politics of fire".

Editorial activities

Marder is an editorial associate of the Journal Telos (New York)^[10] and an editor of four book series: "Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy" Series,^[11] "Critical Plant Studies",^[12] "Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics, and Cultural Studies",^[13] and "Palgrave Studies in Postmetaphysical Thought.^[14]

He has also edited the following books:

• with Luce Irigaray, "Building a New World" (Palgrave, 2015)
• with Peter Trawny & Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Martin Heidegger "On Hegel's Philosophy of Right: The 1934-5 Seminar and Interpretative Essays" (Bloomsbury, 2014)
• with Gianni Vattimo, "Deconstructing Zionism: A Critique of Political Metaphysics" (Bloomsbury, 2014)
• with Santiago Zabala, "Being Shaken: Ontology and the Event" (Palgrave, 2014)
• with Patricia Vieira, "Existential Utopia: New Perspectives on Utopian Thought" (Continuum, 2011)

Books Authored

• Marder, Michael (2016). Dust (Object Lessons). Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1628925586. 
• Marder, Michael (2015). Pyropolitics : When the World Is Ablaze. Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc. ISBN 978-1783480296. 
• Marder, Michael (2014). The Philosopher's Plant : An Intellectual Herbarium. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0231169035. 
• Marder, Michael (2014). Phenomena-Critique-Logos : The Project of Critical Phenomenology. Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc. ISBN 978-1-78348-025-8. 
• Marder, Michael (2013). Plant-Thinking : A Philosophy of Vegetal Life. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0231161251. 
• Marder, Michael (2010). Groundless Existence : The Political Ontology of Carl Schmitt. [S.l.]: Continuum. ISBN 978-1441180001. 
• Marder, Michael (2009). The Event of the Thing : Derrida's Post-Deconstructive Realism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1442612655. 

References

External links

• MichaelMarder.org - Marder's webpage