Plant-Thinking [electronic resource] : A Philosophy of Vegetal Life.

By:

Marder, Michael

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (321 p.)ISBN:

9780231533256 (electronic bk.)
023153325X (electronic bk.)

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Plant-Thinking : A Philosophy of Vegetal LifeDDC classification:

LOC classification:

QK46

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Contents:

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

Summary: 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.

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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.