Plant-thinking : a philosophy of vegetal life /
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: To Encounter the Plants.
- Part I. Vegetal Anti-Metaphysics. Chapter 1. The Soul of the Plant; or, The Meanings of Vegetal Life. The Obscurity of Vegetal Life: On Barely Perceptible Motion. The Potentialities of Plants
- Chapter 2. The Body of the Plant, or, The Destruction of the Metaphysical Paradigm. Back to the Middle: The Inversions of the Plant Vegetal Heteronomy. The Language of Plants and Essential Superficiality: An Ap,roach to Vegetal Being.
- Part II. Vegetal Existentiality. Chapter 3. The Time of Plants. Plant-Time (I): Vegetal Hetero-Temporality. Plant-Time (II): The Bad Infinity of Growth. Plant-Time (III): The Iterability of Expression.
- Chapter 4. The Freedom of Plants The Shape of Freedom. Vegetal Indifference, A Tale of Two Freedoms
- Chapter 5. The Wisdom of Plants. Non-Conscious Intentionality Thinking Without Identity . Philosophy: A Sublimated Plant-Thinking
- Epilogue: The Ethical Offshoots of Plant-Thinking.