Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology
by Ted Toadvine
- Auteur(s)
- Ted Toadvine
- Uitgever, jaar
- Minneapolis ; London : University of minnesota, 2024
- Omvang
- 340 p., 21,5 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781517916008
According to Ted Toadvine, our imagination today is dominated by an obsession with the world’s precarity, from sci-fi and climate fiction to actual predictions of biodiversity collapse, climate disruption, and the emergence of the Anthropocene. In The Memory of the World, 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.
- Trefwoorden
- fenomenologie / phenomenology , dystopia
- Locatie in de bibliotheek
- Kast 11C - 3: Antropoceen (en daarna) / Anthropocene (and after)
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