Michael Marder is

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Research Professor of Philosophy at

the University of the Basque Country The University of the Basque Country ( eu, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, ''EHU''; es, Universidad del País Vasco, ''UPV''; UPV/EHU) is a Spanish public university of the Basque Autonomous Community. Heir of the University of Bilbao, initially ...

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. He works in the phenomenological tradition of

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, environmental thought, and

political philosophy Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them. Its topics include politics, l ...

Education

Marder studied at universities in Canada and the U.S. He received his PhD in Philosophy at the

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. Marder carried out post-doctoral research in the Department of Philosophy at the

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, and taught at

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, and St. Thomas More College at the

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Career

Marder carried out research in

phenomenology Phenomenology may refer to: Art * Phenomenology (architecture), based on the experience of building materials and their sensory properties Philosophy * Phenomenology (philosophy), a branch of philosophy which studies subjective experiences and a ...

as an FCT fellow at the

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, Portugal, and held the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at

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. before accepting the

research professorship at the

University of the Basque Country The University of the Basque Country ( eu, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, ''EHU''; es, Universidad del País Vasco, ''UPV''; UPV/EHU) is a Spanish public university of the Basque Autonomous Community. Heir of the University of Bilbao, initially ...

. Marder is an editorial associate of the Journal

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(New York) and an editor of four-book series: "Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy" Series, "Critical Plant Studies", "Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics, and Cultural Studies", and "Palgrave Studies in Postmetaphysical Thought. Much of his philosophical work has focused on building philosophies that take into account plants as beings with their own form of

subjectivity Subjectivity in a philosophical context has to do with a lack of objective reality. Subjectivity has been given various and ambiguous definitions by differing sources as it is not often the focal point of philosophical discourse.Bykova, Marina F ...

, which has included showing how the field of philosophy, especially the tradition of

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, has neglected plants or treated them as "

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", and how the field has been poorer for it. Dominic Pettman found Marder's book ''Plant-Thinking'' to be a work that made a substantial contribution to that nascent field, but also at times too simplistic, for example idealizing the ways that plants co-exist with other beings and not taking into account the ways that plants attack and defend against other beings.

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External links

MichaelMarder.org
- Marder's webpage {{DEFAULTSORT:Marder, Michael 21st-century Spanish philosophers Basque philosophers Continental philosophers Environmental philosophers Ecologists Heidegger scholars Phenomenologists Philosophers of biology Political philosophers Academic staff of the University of the Basque Country Living people 1980 births Carl Schmitt scholars