Plant-thinking : a philosophy of vegetal life /
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Author / Creator: | Marder, Michael, 1980- author. |
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Imprint: | New York : Columbia University Press, [2013] ©2013 |
Description: | 1 online resource (321 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11176342 |
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," 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. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (321 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780231533256 023153325X 0231161247 9780231161244 0231161255 9780231161251 9781306313889 1306313880 |
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