Spanning a decade of Michael Marder’s contributions as a public intellectual, Senses of Upheavals documents a period of exceptional global turmoil. Thrown into mayhem by right-wing populisms and a pandemic, combined with skyrocketing economic inequalities and worsening environmental crises, the world is on the verge of collapse. Could revolutionary practical-intellectual proposals to learn how to coexist from plants or to rethink the very meaning of energy chart the way to a better, more livable, and, perhaps, calmer world? Nonetheless, such proposals themselves constitute nothing short of an upheaval in philosophy, plant sciences, and environmental studies. We are doomed to upheavals, it seems; the point is not to deflect, but to choose judiciously among them.
Spis treści
A Sense of Upheaval; Part I. Political Upheaval; 1. Rating Sovereignty; 2. The Unfinished Collapse of the Soviet Union; 3. We, the Orphans of October; 4. Incendiary Words and the Volcano of Occupation; 5. Can There Be Poetry after Netanyahu?; 6. Marginalizing Europe; 7. The European Union and the Rhetoric of Immaturity; 8. Trump Metaphysics; 9. The Con Artistry of the Deal: Trump, the Reality TV President; 10. Covid- 19: This Is Not a War; 11. Going Viral, or The Coronavirus Is Us; 12. Can Democracy Save the Planet?; Part II. Cultural Upheaval; 1. On Knees and Elbows; 2. Being in Exile from Oneself; 3. The Muslim “No”; 4. Don’t Keep Calm! And Don’t Carry On!; 5. Uncultured Austerity; 6. A Genealogy of Enjoyment; 7. The Two Suns of Europe; 8. For the Love of a City; 9. What Horse Meat Tells Us about Ourselves; 10. Contagion: Before and after Covid-19; Part III. Intellectual Upheaval; 1. A Fight for the Right to Read Heidegger; 2. Heidegger’s Thinking Today Is, Perhaps, the Possibility of the World; 3. Plus de restes: Remembering Jacques Derrida; 4. The Philosopher’s Beard; 5. Naturalize This! Analytic Philosophy and the Logic of Reactive Neutralization; 6. Jokes and Their Relation to Crisis; 7. Position as a Political Category: Phenomenology and the Eroticism of Power; 8. The Powerlessness of Philosophy; Part IV. Technological Upheaval; 1. Chernobyl as an Event; 2. Nuclear Mourning; 3. The Meaning of “Clean Energy”; 4. Without Clean Air, We Have Nothing (with Luce Irigaray); 5. Poland’s Bialowieza: Losing the Forest and the Trees; 6. Just Randomness?; 7. The Idea of Following in the Age of Twitter; The Upheavals Yet to Come; Notes.
O autorze
Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
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