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Plant-Thinking

A Philosophy of Vegetal Life

  • Paperback
  • 248 pages
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • 14 x 20.6 x 1.6 cm

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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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  • Author

    Michael Marder

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Columbia University Press

  • Published

    March 2013

  • Weight

    273g

  • Page Count

    248

  • Dimensions

    14 x 20.6 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780231161251

  • ISBN-10

    0231161255

  • Eden Code

    4565578

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