{"product_id":"the-memory-of-the-world-9781517916008","title":"The Memory of the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdvancing a phenomenological approach to deep time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\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 t\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MP - University Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885934588247,"sku":"9781517916008","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781517916008.jpg?v=1722538218","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-memory-of-the-world-9781517916008","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}