The philosopher's plant : an intellectual herbarium / Michael Marder ; drawings by Mathilde Roussel.
Despite their conceptual allergy to vegetal life, philosophers have used germination, growth, blossoming, fruition, reproduction, and decay as illustrations of abstract concepts; mentioned plants in passing as the natural backdrops for dialogues, letters, and other compositions; spun elaborate alleg...
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2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover ; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents ; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Herbarium Philosophicum; Part I: Ancient Plant-Souls; 1. Plato's Plane Tree; In The Shade of a Plane Tree; Heavenly and Earthly Plants; Desiring Plants, Rooted Animals, and Other Ideas; Two Grounds, Two Plants, Two Worlds?; 2. Aristotle's Wheat; Philosopher's Bread (and Butter); Potential and Actual Plants; On Being All You Can Be (Without Becoming a Plant); Chaotic Proliferations: Collapsing Distinctions; 3. Plotinus' Anonymous "Great Plant"; A Portrait of the World as Plant.
- Traversing the Levels of the Vegetal MindTo Stem Out the Plant In You!; The Revenge Of The Plant; Part II: Medieval Plant-Instruments; 4. Augustine's Pears; When A Saint Stole Pears; The Sheer Impossibility Of Enjoying Fruit; Antivegetal Ethics: Repressing A Weeping Fig Tree; Matter Spiritualized: The Wood Of The Cross, Divine Order, And Rustling Leaves; 5. Avicenna's Celery; Immoderate Philosophers, Excessive Plants; The Feudal Order of the Vegetal Soul, Or Aristotelianism With A Twist; What Do Plants Love?; The Aporia Of Knowing Ourselves (As Plants); 6. Maimonides' Palm Tree; Arbor Sacra.
- "A Plant or a Mineral" Or GodRituals of Purification: The Plant, The Ground, And A Perforated Pot; Against a Talking Tree, Or The Unfinished Work of Disenchantment; Part III: Modern Plant-Images; 7. Leibniz's Blades of Grass; In The Bushes of a Royal Garden; A Garden Within a Garden: The Labyrinths of Vegetal Infinity; What Does a Plant Express?; The Plant As Monad: A Theoretical Conundrum; 8. Kant's Tulip; A Flower Against The System; What Can We Know About Plants?; What Can We Do With Plants?; What Can Plants Do To Us?; 9. Hegel's Grapes; From Grapes To Spirit(S).
- Adventures In Vegetable DialecticsThe Sex Life of Plants, Or Beyond Oppositionality; The Vegetable Kernel of the Dialectical Shell; Part IV: Postmodern Plant-Subjects; 10. Heidegger's Apple Tree; Face To Face With a Blossoming Tree; The Blossoming of Being; A Plant'S "Being-In-The-World"; Do Plants Die?; 11. Derrida's Sunflowers; Three Scenes of Reading Plants; Plastic Plants, Wasted Seeds, And Other Useless Artifacts; Phytophallogocentrism; The Trouble With The Supplement And The Place of Plants; 12. Irigaray's Water Lily; Contemplating a Flower With Buddha; Flowering-With.
- Vegetal Fidelities"We Still Fall Short of the Human"; Notes; Bibliography; Index.