Through Vegetal Being
Subtitle: Two Philosophical Perspectives
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: Jul 05, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780231173865
Description: Through Vegetal Being is an intense personal philosophical, and political meditation on the significance of the vegetal for our lives, our ways of thinking, and our relations with human and nonhuman beings. Irigaray and Marder consider how the vegetal world contributes to humum development by sustaining our breathing, nourishing our senses, and keeping our bodies alive. Their generative discussion points to wart a more universal way of becoming human that is embedded in the vegetal world.
Notes: Source title: Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives (Critical Life Studies)