Deutsche Gesellschaft
für phänomenologische Forschung

Lecture Series | Paper

Toward a Static-Genetic Conception of Nature

Michael Marder

Montag 14 Oktober 2024

18:15 - 19:00

In this talk, I re-interpret the Husserlian distinction between static and genetic kinds of phenomenology (and Derrida’s subsequent deconstruction of this distinction) in light of what I call a static-genetic conception of nature. The task of fleshing out such a conception entails taking a close look both at the speculative, formally self-contradictory character of stasis and at how, contrary to Aristotle, genesis embraces birth and fabrication (in particular, the fabrication of birth). Much of the talk will be dedicated to unraveling the sense of this notion on the hither side of the usual efforts at overcoming the nature-culture split.