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Informationen zum Autor edited by Giovanni Aloi and Michael Marder Klappentext "A reader of previously published and new material (interviews with artists and theorists) devoted to the new and growing field of critical plant studies, and a reader that practices what it covers by arranging and intertwining its contents through a non-hierarchical and articulated manner that allow for different, alternate reading pathways"-- Zusammenfassung The first reader in critical plant studies, exploring a rapidly growing multidisciplinary field—the intersection of philosophy with plant science and the visual arts. In recent years, philosophy and art have testified to how anthropocentrism has culturally impoverished our world, leading to the wide destruction of habitats and ecosystems. In this book, Giovanni Aloi and Michael Marder show that the field of critical plant studies can make an important contribution, offering a slew of possibilities for scientific research, local traditions, Indigenous knowledge, history, geography, anthropology, philosophy, and aesthetics to intersect, inform one another, and lead interdisciplinary and transcultural dialogues. Vegetal Entwinements in Philosophy and Art considers such topics as the presence of plants in the history of philosophy, the shifting status of plants in various traditions, what it means to make art with growing life-forms, and whether or not plants have moral standing. In an experimental vegetal arrangement, the reader presents some of the most influential writing on plants, philosophy, and the arts, together with provocative new contributions, as well as interviews with groundbreaking contemporary artists whose work has greatly enhanced our appreciation of vegetal being. Contributors: Catriona A.H. Sandilands, Giovanni Aloi, Marlene Atleo, Monica Bakke, Emily Blackmer, Jodi Brandt, Teresa Castro, Dan Choffness, D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem, Mark Dion, Elisabeth E. Schussler, Braden Elliott, Monica Gagliano, Elaine Gan, Prudence Gibson, James H. Wandersee, Manuela Infante, Luce Irigaray, Nicholas J. Reo, Jonathon Keats, Zayaan Khan, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Eduardo Kohn, Stefano Mancuso, Michael Marder, Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Elaine Miller, Samaneh Moafi, Uriel Orlow, Mark Payne, Allegra Pesenti, Špela Petric, Michael Pollan, Darren Ranco, Angela Roothaan, Marcela Salinas, Diana Scherer, Vandana Shiva, Linda Tegg, Maria Theresa Alves, Krista Tippet, Anthony Trewavas, Alessandra Viola, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, B+W, Mathai Wangari, Lois Weinberger, Kyle Whyte, David Wood, Anicka Yi Inhaltsverzeichnis Alternative Reading Pathways (xiii) Introduction (1) I Conceptions 1 The Plant: A Stranger (13) Stefano Mancuso and Alessandra Viola 2 Maimonides' Palm Tree (25) Michael Marder 3 Hermeneutics of Trees in an African Context: Enriching the Understanding of the Environment "For the Common Heritage of Humankind" (43) Angela Roothaan 4 A Weed is a Plant Out of Place (61) Allegra Pesenti 5 Nuucaanul Plants and Habitats as Reflected in Oral Traditions: Since Raven and Thunderbird Roamed (73) Marlene Atleo (?eh ?eh nah tuu k*iss) 6 Interview with Mark Dion (87) 7 Interview with Zayaan Khan (91) II Methodologies 8 The Human Bumblebee (97) Michael Pollan 9 Cosmologies: Perspectivism (107) Eduardo Viveiros de Castro 10 Of Other Spaces: (Brief) Encounters (145) Giovanni Aloi 11 Adventures in Phytophenomenology (159) David Wood 12 Introduction to Plant-Thinking (173) Michael Marder 13 Interview with Jonathon Keats (187) 14 Interview with Spela Petric (195) III Engagements 15 Seeds and Plants as my Teachers of Ethics (205) 16 Concepts of Ethnomedicine (227) Dan Choffnes 17 Blossoming Sex: Floral Transpositions in the Works of Natalia LL and Zofia Kulik (263) Monika Bakke 18 Botanical Decolonization: in Defense ...
