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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.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Deep Time
1. Chronopoiesis: A Phenomenology of Natural Time
2. The Elemental Past
3. Recursive Reflection and the Music of Nature
Part II. Animality
4. Beyond Biologism: Evolution as Alteraffection
5. The World of the Bee
6. Animal Memories
7. Extinction and Memory: From Biodiversity to Biodiacritics
Part III. Eschatology
8. Apocalyptic Turns: The Chiasm of Cosmic Imagination
9. The Elements at the End of the World
10. Climate Change and the Temporal Sublime
11. Future Fossils: The Anthropocene and the Earth
Notes
Bibliography
Publication History
Index
