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Plant-thinking : a philosophy of vegetal life

Title
Plant-thinking : a philosophy of vegetal life / Michael Marder ; with a foreword by Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala.
Author
Marder, Michael, 1980-
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, [2013], ©2013.

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Description
xviii, 223 pages; 21 cm
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Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: To Encounter the Plants. -- Part I. Vegetal Anti-Metaphysics. Chapter 1. The Soul of the Plant; or, The Meanings of Vegetal Life. The Obscurity of Vegetal Life: On Barely Perceptible Motion. The Potentialities of Plants -- Chapter 2. The Body of the Plant, or, The Destruction of the Metaphysical Paradigm. Back to the Middle: The Inversions of the Plant Vegetal Heteronomy. The Language of Plants and Essential Superficiality: An Ap,roach to Vegetal Being. -- Part II. Vegetal Existentiality. Chapter 3. The Time of Plants. Plant-Time (I): Vegetal Hetero-Temporality. Plant-Time (II): The Bad Infinity of Growth. Plant-Time (III): The Iterability of Expression. -- Chapter 4. The Freedom of Plants The Shape of Freedom. Vegetal Indifference, A Tale of Two Freedoms -- Chapter 5. The Wisdom of Plants. Non-Conscious Intentionality Thinking Without Identity . Philosophy: A Sublimated Plant-Thinking -- Epilogue: The Ethical Offshoots of Plant-Thinking.
ISBN
  • 9780231161244 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0231161247 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780231161251 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0231161255 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780231533256 (e-book)
  • 023153325X (e-book)
LCCN
2012023675
OCLC
  • ocn809454932
  • 809454932
  • SCSB-5678374
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries