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Current Members

PRAXIS Research Group

Michael Marder


Department of Philosophy
University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU

Paseo de la Universidad, 5
01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz
Spain

email: michael.marder@gmail.com 

Bio

Michael Marder is IKERBASQUE Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country (EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz. His most recent books include The Phoenix Complex (2023), Time Is a Plant (2023), with Edward S. Casey, Plants in Place (2024), Eco-Freud (2025), Metamorphoses Reimagined (2025), with Anais Tondeur, Fiori di fuoco (2025), and Of Joints and Other Articulations (2026). More information at michaelmarder.org 

Selected Publications

  • Marder, M. (2025). The Dialectics of Energy: From the Concept to Actuality, from Actuality to Virtuality, from Virtuality to…., Religions, 16(11), 1370.
  • Marder, M. (2025). A Phenomenology of Sexual Difference and Plant Life. In M. Heneise, C. Falke, E. Dahl, A. Sundman and E. Lia (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Eco-Phenomenology (pp. 251–260). Routledge.
  • Marder, M. (2024). The Return of Politics: Of Fire and Other Elements, Telos, 209: 149-151.
  • Parise, A. G., de Toledo, G. R. A., Oliveira, T. F. de C., Souza, G. M., Castiello, U., Gagliano, M. & Marder, M. (2022). Do plants pay attention? A possible phenomenological-empirical approach, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 173: 11-23.
  • Marder, M. (2020). Pyropolitics in the World Ablaze. Rowman & Littlefield. 
  • Marder, M. (2018). Ecology as Event. In M. Fritsch, P. Lynes and D. Wood (Eds.), Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy (pp. 141-164). Fordham University Press.
  • Irigaray, L. & Marder, M. (2016). Through vegetal being: Two philosophical perspectives. Columbia University Press.
  • Marder, M. (2013). Plant-thinking: A philosophy of vegetal life. Columbia University Press.

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