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Michael Marder is a continental philosopher specializing in phenomenology. He is the author of several books on Derrida, Schmitt, and together with Jeffrey T. Nealon, works at the frontline of so called “plant studies.” A few years ago we wrote a foreword for his first book on plants as it entered within the field of research of weak thought. “Weak thought” has now marked its 35th anniversary since the publication of Gianni and Pier Aldo Rovatti’s edited collection Weak Thought (with contributions from Umberto Eco, Gianni Carchia, among others), and it has been almost 40 years since Gianni first used the concept in his essay “Towards an Ontology of Decline.” During all these decades, weak thought has not only confronted other philosophical stances, such as as neo-pragmatism and deconstruction, but also help the weak emerge as in the case of plants studies.
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A historical introduction to Weak Thought is available in “Introduction” in Weakening Philosophy, ed. S. Zabala (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006). A updated account of “Weak Thought” can be found in the Special Issue of Philosophy Today (Volume 60, Issue 3, 2016) edited by Robert T. Valgenti and in the Dossier on The Los Angeles Review of Books, November 10th 2016, edited by S. Zabala with contributions from W. Egginton, K. Kolozova, R. T. Valgenti, and N. Vahanian. https://lareviewofbooks.org/feature/weakening-philosophy-forum-gianni-vattimo/
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Gianni Vattimo and Pier Aldo Rovatti (eds), Weak Thought, 1983. trans. Peter Carravetta (New York: SUNY, 2013).
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G. Vattimo, “Toward an Ontology of Decline Recoding Metaphysics.” 1979. Trans. B. Spack- man. In Recoding Metaphysics: The New Italian Philosophy. Edited by G. Borradori. Evanston: Northwestern University Press 1988.
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Vattimo, G., Zabala, S. (2017). Response to Marder. In: Mazzini, S., Glyn-Williams, O. (eds) Making Communism Hermeneutical. Contributions to Hermeneutics, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59021-9_12
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