{"product_id":"the-memory-of-the-world-deep-time-animality-and-eschatology-hardback-9781517915995","title":"The Memory of the World; Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology (Hardback) 9781517915995","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Memory of the World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDeep Time, Animality, and Eschatology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTed Toadvine (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517915995\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 14 May 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e344 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 0.51 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThe Memory of the World\u003c\/i\u003e brings philosophy down to Earth in a book bursting with profound insights for our times and future life on this planet. Ted Toadvine first digs down through phenomenological strata of everyday perception to show how our evolved bodies mesh with and dredge up the deep time past of our planet; he then burrows sideways through deep time, now, to offer an innovative ‘biodiacritical’ account of our kinship with other animals; finally, he tunnels back up through the immense scales of deep time to show how they haunt our apocalyptic imaginings of future planetary crises. This is a superb and daring book, one that makes important contributions to phenomenology and philosophy of nature and life-but also to work on climate, the Anthropocene, animal studies, environmental humanities, and more.\" -David Morris, author of \u003ci\u003eMerleau-Ponty’s Developmental Ontology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThe Memory of the World\u003c\/i\u003e achieves two important things: it steers our understanding of Merleau-Ponty toward a temporal interpretation of his thought and, at the same time, it uses that reading to make a critical intervention amongst theories of environmental apocalypse. Ted Toadvine’s concept of ‘biodiacritics’ should lead to a reorientation of the ‘eschatological imagination,’ producing effects in knowledge that are as insightful as they are impactful. This is a wonderful book that is a pleasure to think alongside.\" -John \u0026amp;Oacute; Maoilearca, author of \u003ci\u003eVestiges of a Philosophy: Matter, the Meta-Spiritual, and the Forgotten Bergson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Toadvine has made a serious, concerted effort in answering a question that has not previously been raised. How do we relate to deep time, and has our disparate, scientific approach been adequate? \"-\u003ci\u003ePhilosophy in Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Recommended.\"-\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"An ambitious and profound book. Not content with an original reading of Merleau-Ponty’s ecophenomenological insights, it brims over with extensive, expert scholarship, which synthesizes insights from thinkers from Darwin to Deleuze.\"-\u003ci\u003eEnvironmental Values\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"This intriguing, important book will provoke many questions.\"-\u003ci\u003eConfigurations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdvancing a phenomenological approach to deep time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Memory of the World\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Integrating insights from phenomenology, deconstruction, critical animal studies, and new materialism, \u003ci\u003eThe Memory of the World\u003c\/i\u003e argues for a new philosophy of time that takes seriously the multiple, pleated, and entangled temporal events spanning cosmic, geological, evolutionary, and human durations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contents \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Abbreviations \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Introduction \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part I. Deep Time \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1. Chronopoiesis: A Phenomenology of Natural Time \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 2. The Elemental Past \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 3. Recursive Reflection and the Music of Nature \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part II. Animality \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 4. Beyond Biologism: Evolution as Alteraffection \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 5. The World of the Bee \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 6. Animal Memories \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 7. Extinction and Memory: From Biodiversity to Biodiacritics \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part III. Eschatology \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 8. Apocalyptic Turns: The Chiasm of Cosmic Imagination \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 9. The Elements at the End of the World \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 10. Climate Change and the Temporal Sublime \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 11. Future Fossils: The Anthropocene and the Earth \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Notes \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Publication History \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619259314456,"sku":"9781517915995","price":71.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-memory-of-the-world-deep-time-animality-and-eschatology-hardback-9781517915995","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}