Michael Marder

Michael Marder
Born1980 (age 45–46)
Education
EducationNew School for Social Research
Philosophical work
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
Continental philosophy
Phenomenology
Websitewww.michaelmarder.org

Michael Marder (born 1980) is Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz. He works in the phenomenological tradition of Continental philosophy, environmental thought, and political philosophy.

Education

Marder studied at universities in Canada and the U.S. He received his PhD in Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City. 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.

Career

Marder carried out research in phenomenology 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. before accepting the Ikerbasque research professorship at the University of the Basque Country.

Marder is an editorial associate of the journal Telos (New York) and an editor of two book series: Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy Series and Critical Plant Studies.

Much of his philosophical work has focused on building philosophies that take into account plants as beings with their own form of subjectivity, which has included showing how the field of philosophy, especially the tradition of continental philosophy, has neglected plants or treated them as "other", and how the field has been poorer for it. Dominic Pettman found Marder's book Plant-Thinking to be a work that made a substantial contribution to that nascent field, but also at times too simplistic, for example idealizing the ways that plants co-exist with other beings and not taking into account the ways that plants attack and defend against other beings.

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ "Michael Marder at IKERBASQUE". 22 February 2017.,
  2. ↑ New School PhD Dissertation. OCLC 479267051.
  3. ↑ "Michael Marder (reading and signing)".
  4. ↑ "Department News" (PDF). Duquesne Graduate Philosophy News. 2010. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
  5. ↑ Michael Marder faculty page at Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science
  6. ↑ "About the Editor". Telos. 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
  7. ↑ "Bloomsbury - Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
  8. ↑ "Critical Plant Studies". Retrieved 25 October 2014.
  9. 1 2 Pettman, Dominic (July 28, 2013). "The Noble Cabbage: Michael Marder's "Plant-Thinking"". Los Angeles Review of Books.