Plants in Place - A Phenomenology of the Vegetal

Plants in Place is a collaborative study of vegetal phenomenology at the intersection of Edward S. Casey's phenomenology of place and Michael Marder's plant-thinking.

List of contents

Preface: Walking Among Plants
Acknowledgments
1. The Placial Basis of Plant Sessility and Mobility
2. Peripheral Power: Structural Dynamics at the Edges of Plants
Interlude I. How Plants Think
3. Taking Trees Over the Edge
Interlude II. Plants Up-Close: The Case of Moss
4. The Shared Sociality of Trees, with Implications for Place
Interlude III. Plants from Afar: As Seen in Landscape Painting
5. Attachment and Detachment in the Place of Plants
Conclusion: The Fate of Places, the Fate of Plants
Notes
Index

About the author

Edward S. Casey is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His many books include, most recently, Turning Emotion Inside Out: Affective Life Beyond the Subject (2021) and The World on Edge (2017).

Michael Marder is IKERBASQUE Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Spain. His previous Columbia University Press books include Political Categories: Thinking Beyond Concepts (2019) and Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life (2013).

Summary

Plants in Place is a collaborative study of vegetal phenomenology at the intersection of Edward S. Casey’s phenomenology of place and Michael Marder’s plant-thinking.

Product details

• Authors: Edward S. Casey, Edward S. Marder Casey, Michael Marder
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.12.2023
• EAN: 9780231213455
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21345-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Critical Life Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism, philosophy; language arts & disciplines; nature