Plant-Thinking

A Philosophy of Vegetal Life

Michael Marder, Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala

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Columbia University Press
19 February 2013

Philosophy; Mathematics & Sciences; Botany & plant sciences

"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."

By: Michael Marder
Foreword by: Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 269g
ISBN: 9780231161251
ISBN 10: 0231161255
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 19 February 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword by Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala Acknowledgments Introduction: To Encounter the Plants ... Part I. Vegetal Anti-Metaphysics 1. The Soul of the Plant 2. The Body of the Plant Part II. Vegetal Existentiality 3. The Time of Plants 4. The Freedom of Plants 5. The Wisdom of Plants Epilogue: The Ethical Offshoots of Plant-Thinking Notes Works Cited Index

Michael Marder is IKERBASQUE Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz. He is the author of The Event of the Thing: Derrida's Post-Deconstructive Realism and Groundless Existence: The Political Ontology of Carl Schmitt, and, with Patricia Vieira, he is the coeditor of Existential Utopia: New Perspectives on Utopian Thought. He is also an associate editor of the journal Telos and a series editor of Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy at Continuum Press and of Critical Plant Studies: Philosophy, Literature, Culture at Rodopi Press.

Reviews for Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life

A superbly presented seminal work... Highly recommended. Midwest Book Review Profoundly original Choice We owe Marder...a great debt for widening the contemporary philosophical discussion of life and ethics, taking it into the plant kingdom. -- Jeffrey T. Nealon Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Michael Marder's book Plant-Thinking is a timely contribution to the project of expanding ethical considerations to non-human beings... This is a strong contribution to the post-metaphysical project. Canadian Philosophical Review Life-changing Bangalore Review All who get a taste of this succulent study will find much food for thought. Library Journal (Starred) Anyone can find something of note or amusement here. Publishers Weekly

Short-listed for Findlay Book Prize for Best Book of Metaphysics Published between 2010-13 2015
Short-listed for John N. Findlay Book Prize in Metaphysics 2014
Short-listed for John N. Findlay Book Prize in Metaphysics 2015