The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture

by Emanuele Coccia

Book Overview

We barely talk about them and seldom know their names. Philosophy has always overlooked them; even biology considers them as mere decoration on the tree of life. And yet plants give life to the Earth: they produce the atmosphere that surrounds us, they are the origin of the oxygen that animates us. Plants embody the most direct, elementary connection that life can establish with the world.

In this highly original book, Emanuele Coccia argues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150953153X
• ISBN13: 9781509531530
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"