Marder The Philosopher's Plant

An Intellectual Herbarium
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-53813-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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 allegories out of flowers, trees, and even grass; and recommended appropriate medicinal, dietary, and aesthetic approaches to select species of plants.

In this book, Michael Marder illuminates the vegetal centerpieces and hidden kernels that have powered theoretical discourse for centuries. Choosing twelve botanical specimens that correspond to twelve significant philosophers, he recasts the development of philosophy through the evolution of human and plant relations. A philosophical history for the postmetaphysical age, The Philosopher's Plant reclaims the organic heritage of human thought. With the help of vegetal images, examples, and metaphors, the book clears a path through philosophy's tangled roots and dense undergrowth, opening up the discipline to all readers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marder, Michael

Weitere Mitwirkende

Roussel, Mathilde

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Naturphilosophie, Philosophie und Evolution
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Leseproben

Read "Herbarium Philosophicum," the Prologue to The Philosopher's Plant

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Marder is IKERBASQUE Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, UPV-EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz. He is the author of The Event of the Thing: Derrida's Post-Deconstructive Realism; Groundless Existence: The Political Ontology of Carl Schmitt; Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life; Phenomena—Critique—Logos: The Project of Critical Phenomenology; and the forthcoming Pyropolitics: When the World Is Ablaze.

Mathilde Roussel is a French artist and sculptor who has taught and exhibited widely in the United States.