Plant-Thinking A Philosophy of Vegetal Life.
Marder, Michael.
Plant-Thinking A Philosophy of Vegetal Life. [electronic resource] : - New York : Columbia University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (321 p.)
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Cover; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: To Encounter the Plants; Part I: Vegetal Anti-Metaphysics; 1. The Soul of the Plant; or, The Meanings of Vegetal Life; 2. The Body of the Plant; or, The Destruction of the Metaphysical Paradigm; Part II: Vegetal Existentiality; 3. The Time of Plants; 4. The Freedom of Plants; 5. The Wisdom of Plants; Epilogue: The Ethical Offshoots of Plant-Thinking; Notes; Works Cited; Index
The margins of philosophy are populated by non-human, non-animal living beings, including plants. While contemporary philosophers tend to refrain from raising ontological and ethical concerns with vegetal life, Michael Marder puts this life at the forefront of the current deconstruction of metaphysics. He identifies the existential features of plant behavior and the vegetal heritage of human thought so as to affirm the potential of vegetation to resist the logic of totalization and to exceed the narrow confines of instrumentality. Reconstructing the life of plants ?after metaphysics," Mar.
9780231533256 (electronic bk.) 023153325X (electronic bk.)
Human-plant relationships.
Ontology.
Plants - Philosophy.
Plants--Philosophy.
Ontology.
Human-plant relationships.
PHILOSOPHY / Essays
PHILOSOPHY / Reference
Electronic books.
QK46
100
Plant-Thinking A Philosophy of Vegetal Life. [electronic resource] : - New York : Columbia University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (321 p.)
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: To Encounter the Plants; Part I: Vegetal Anti-Metaphysics; 1. The Soul of the Plant; or, The Meanings of Vegetal Life; 2. The Body of the Plant; or, The Destruction of the Metaphysical Paradigm; Part II: Vegetal Existentiality; 3. The Time of Plants; 4. The Freedom of Plants; 5. The Wisdom of Plants; Epilogue: The Ethical Offshoots of Plant-Thinking; Notes; Works Cited; Index
The margins of philosophy are populated by non-human, non-animal living beings, including plants. While contemporary philosophers tend to refrain from raising ontological and ethical concerns with vegetal life, Michael Marder puts this life at the forefront of the current deconstruction of metaphysics. He identifies the existential features of plant behavior and the vegetal heritage of human thought so as to affirm the potential of vegetation to resist the logic of totalization and to exceed the narrow confines of instrumentality. Reconstructing the life of plants ?after metaphysics," Mar.
9780231533256 (electronic bk.) 023153325X (electronic bk.)
Human-plant relationships.
Ontology.
Plants - Philosophy.
Plants--Philosophy.
Ontology.
Human-plant relationships.
PHILOSOPHY / Essays
PHILOSOPHY / Reference
Electronic books.
QK46
100