Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life

by Michael Marder

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231161255
• ISBN13: 9780231161251
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher