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Plant Thinking. The Philosophy of Vegetative Life

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Plant Thinking. The Philosophy of Vegetative Life
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On the fringes of philosophy's fringes dwell non-human (and non-animal) beings, among them plants. While contemporary philosophers typically refrain from addressing ontological and ethical questions related to vegetative life, Michael Marder brings this life to the forefront, deconstructing metaphysics in his book. The author identifies existential peculiarities in plant behavior and the vegetative legacy in human thought—traces of man in plants and traces of plants in humans—to defend vegetation's capacity to resist the logic of totalization and transcend the narrow confines of instrumental thought. Reconstructing plant life "after metaphysics," Marder emphasizes their unique temporality, freedom, and material-practical knowledge, or wisdom. In his understanding, “plant thinking” is a non-cognitive, non-ideational, and non-figurative mode of thinking characteristic of plants, as well as the process of returning human thought to its roots and assimilating this thought to plant thought.
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