Michael Marder

Plant-Thinking

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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 the logic of totalization and to exceed the narrow confines of instrumentality. Reconstructing the life of plants “after metaphysics,” Marder focuses on their unique temporality, freedom, and material knowledge or wisdom. In his formulation, “plant-thinking” is the non-cognitive, non-ideational, and non-imagistic mode of thinking proper to plants, as much as the process of bringing human thought itself back to its roots and rendering it plantlike.
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316 printed pages
Original publication
2013
Publication year
2013
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  • briofitahas quoted3 years ago
    And it is at the same intersection that new and more daring demands arise: to extend the scope of ethical treatment and to address the diverse modes of being of all living beings, many of them deemed too insignificant and mundane to even deserve the appellation “others.”
  • briofitahas quoted3 years ago
    An earlier draft of was the basis for an article, “What Is Plant-Thinking?” published in volume 25 of Klēsis: Revue philosophique (2013), dedicated to philosophies of nature.
  • briofitahas quoted3 years ago
    Weak thought—pensiero debole—was first formulated in 1979 and has since become a position common to many post-metaphysical philosophers, including, among others, Richard Rorty
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