Michael Marder

The Philosopher's Plant

An Intellectual Herbarium
Illustration: Roussel, Mathilde

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Produktbeschreibung

A secret history of philosophy grafting theory onto science, combining art and storytelling to bring Western thought back to its roots.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9780231169035
• ISBN-10: 0231169035
• Artikelnr.: 40952226

Autorenporträt

Michael Marder (PhD, Philosophy, the New School) is IKERBASQUE Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country. He is the author of, among other books, Groundless Existence: The Political Ontology of Carl Schmitt (Continuum, 2012), The Event of the Thing: Derrida's Post-Deconstructive Realism (Toronto, 2013), Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life (Columbia, 2013), The Philosopher's Plant: An Intellectual Herbarium (Columbia, 2014), Energy Dreams (Columbia, 2017), and, with Luce Irigaray, Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives (Columbia, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Prologue: Herbarium Philosophicum
Part I: Ancient Plant-Souls
1. Plato's Plane Tree
2. Aristotle's Wheat
3. Plotinus' Anonymous "Great Plant"
Part II. Medieval Plant-Instruments
4. Augustine's Pears
5. Avicenna's Celery
6. Maimonides' Palm Tree
Part III. Modern Plant-Images
7. Leibniz's Blades of Grass
8. Kant's Tulip
9. Hegel's Grapes
Part IV: Postmodern Plant-Subjects
10. Heidegger's Apple Tree
11. Derrida's Sunflowers
12. Irigaray's Water Lily
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

"The Philosophers Plant is an original contribution to a concept which for too long has been marginalized. As the only contemporary philosopher working on plants from a deconstructive and weak-thought perspective, Marder provides not only another contribution to the philosophical concept of plants in general, but also adds onto his own work." - Santiago Zabala, ICREA/University of Barcelona