The Memory of the World
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The Memory of the World

Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology

  1. 348 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Memory of the World

Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology

About this book

Advancing a phenomenological approach to deep time
 

Our imagination today is dominated by the end of the world, from sci-fi and climate fiction to actual predictions of biodiversity collapse, climate disruption, and the emergence of the Anthropocene. This obsession with the world’s precarity, The Memory of the World contends, relies on a flawed understanding of time that neglects the past and present with the goal of managing the future. Not only does this mislead sustainability efforts, it diminishes our encounters with the world and with human and nonhuman others.

 

Here, Ted 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.

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Information

Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781452970950
Subtopic
Critical Theory

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Posthumanities Series Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Abbreviations
  8. Introduction
  9. Part I: Deep Time
  10. Chapter 1. Chronopoiesis: A Phenomenology of Natural Time
  11. Chapter 2. The Elemental Past
  12. Chapter 3. Recursive Reflection and the Music of Nature
  13. Part II: Animality
  14. Chapter 4. Beyond Biologism: Evolution as Alteraffection
  15. Chapter 5. The World of the Bee
  16. Chapter 6. Animal Memories
  17. Chapter 7. Extinction and Memory: From Biodiversity to Biodiacritics
  18. Part III: Eschatology
  19. Chapter 8. Apocalyptic Turns: The Chiasm of Cosmic Imagination
  20. Chapter 9. The Elements at the End of the World
  21. Chapter 10. Climate Change and the Temporal Sublime
  22. Chapter 11. Future Fossils: The Anthropocene and the Earth
  23. Notes
  24. Bibliography
  25. Publication History
  26. Index
  27. Posthumanities Series Page (continued)
  28. Author Biography