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17. Ted Toadvine: Deep Time, the Anthropocene Debate and Eco-Phenomenology
3 hour 5 minutes Posted May 20, 2024 at 10:00 pm.
) Introduction
) Episode begins
) Why Toadvine wrote The Memory of the World
) Toadvine’s earliest experiences of deep time
) Reconciling humanity and the natural environment
) Technology and nature
) The problem with the Anthropocene
) The problem with biodiversity
) The relationship between nature and language
) What is eco-phenomenology?
) Nature as the horizon of all things
) “Nature loves to hide”
) Edmund Husserl’s description of the natural world as a “correlate of consciousness”
) “The sun did not exist before human beings”
) The ethical problems of global sustainability
) The relationship between deep time and embodiment
) The animals that haunt our humanity from within
) Derrida at the end of the world
) The cultural obsession with doomsday
) The phenomenological perspective of the end of the world
) A phenomenology of the elements
) Art and the elements
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Peter speaks to the philosopher Ted Toadvine about a wide range of environmental themes and issues. Toadvine specialises in environmental ethics and contemporary European philosophy. His new book titled The Memory of the World: Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology explores the ethical and ecological implications of deep time from a phenomenological perspective and is available now via University of Minnesota Press.
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