Plant-Thinking - A Philosophy of Vegetal Life

Informationen zum Autor Michael Marder. Foreword by Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala Klappentext 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," Marder focuses on their unique temporality, freedom, and material knowledge or wisdom. In his formulation, "plant-thinking" is the non-cognitive, non-ideational, and non-imagistic mode of thinking proper to plants, as much as the process of bringing human thought itself back to its roots and rendering it plantlike. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala Acknowledgments Introduction: To Encounter the Plants . . . Part I. Vegetal Anti-Metaphysics 1. The Soul of the Plant 2. The Body of the Plant 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

Product details

• Authors: Michael Marder
• Assisted by: Vattimo Gianni (Foreword), Zabala Santiago (Foreword)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2013
• EAN: 9780231161251
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16125-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, Philosophy, Botany & plant sciences, Botany and plant sciences, botany; animal rights; Deconstruction