Plant-thinking : a philosophy of vegetal life /
Marder, Michael,1980-
New York : Columbia University Press,
c2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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;  or, the vicissitudes of nourishment. On "the commom" : mode of living and the shared soul. -- 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 Approach 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.
Plants
Ontology.
Human-plant relationships.