Michael Marder, Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, is the author of The Event of the Thing: Derrida’s Post-Deconstructive Realism, Groundless Existence: The Political Ontology of Carl Schmitt, and Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life.
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Commentaries by Michael Marder
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Europe’s Pain without Gain
VITORIA-GASTEIZ – In a recent interview, French President François Hollande made the crucial, but often forgotten, point that there are limi…
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Uncultured Austerity
VITORIA-GASTEIZ – Culture is the silent victim of the euro crisis. Last month, the Portuguese government announced the definitive closure of…
Blog posts by Michael Marder
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The Philosopher’s Plant 7.0: Leibniz’s Blades of Grass
The year: 1685. The place: the gardens of Herrenhausen, the Electoral Palace of Princess Sophie in Hanover. A frantic search is under way, l…
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The Philosopher’s Plant 6.0: Avicenna’s Celery
A Persian wunderkind born in the 10th century AD, Avicenna (the Latinized version of the name ibn Sīnā) knew a thing or two about plants. In…
The Philosopher's Plant 2.0: Aristotle's Wheat
Stefanos Kourkoulakos: AN ANTILOGUE FOR ALETHEIA (TRUTH) The following is an anti-logue for a-letheia (truth), in response to Michael Marder’s December 11, 2012 piece “The Philosopher’s Plant 2.0: Aristotle’s Wheat” in the…
The Philosopher's Plant 2.0: Aristotle's Wheat
Nathan Coppedge: Generalism is what we know as coherency, and the other end of synecdoche as you describe it is the property of category. The sense of genus may be a mistaken idea that generalism is category, when it …