Plant-Thinking

A Philosophy of Vegetal Life
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-231-16125-1
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 208 mm, Gewicht: 279 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marder, Michael

Weitere Mitwirkende

Vattimo, Gianni

Zabala, Santiago

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Naturphilosophie, Philosophie und Evolution

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Gianni Vattimo and Santiago ZabalaAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: To Encounter the Plants . . .

Part I. Vegetal Anti-MetaphysicsChapter 1. The Soul of the PlantChapter 2. The Body of the Plant

Part II. Vegetal ExistentialityChapter 3. The Time of PlantsChapter 4. The Freedom of PlantsChapter 5. The Wisdom of Plants

Epilogue: The Ethical Offshoots of Plant-ThinkingNotesWorks CitedIndex

Leseproben

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Über Autor(innen)

Michael Marder is IKERBASQUE Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, UPV-EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz. He is the author of The Philosopher's Plant: An Intellectual Herbarium; The Event of the Thing: Derrida's Post-Deconstructive Realism; Groundless Existence: The Political Ontology of Carl Schmitt; Phenomena Critique Logos: The Project of Critical Phenomenology; and the forthcoming Pyropolitics: When the World Is Ablaze.