The Philosopher's Plant : An Intellectual Herbarium /

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Despite their conceptual allergy to vegetal life, philosophers have used germination, growth, blossoming, fruition, reproduction, and decay as illustrations of abstract concepts; mentioned plants in passing as the natural backdrops for dialogues, letters, and other compositions; spun elaborate alleg...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marder, Michael (Autor)
Otros Autores: Roussel, Mathilde
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Temas:
Botany > History.
Botany > Philosophy.
Human-plant relationships.
Music and philosophy.
Plants > Adaptation.
PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • PROLOGUE: HERBARIUM PHILOSOPHICUM
  • Part I. Ancient Plant-Souls
  • 1 / Plato's Plane Tree
  • 2 / Aristotle's Wheat
  • 3 / Plotinus' Anonymous "Great Plant"
  • Part II. Medieval Plant-Instruments
  • 4 / Augustine's Pears
  • 5 / Avicenna's Celery
  • 6 / Maimonides' Palm Tree
  • Part III. Modern Plant-Images
  • 7 / Leibniz's Blades of Grass
  • 8 / Kant's Tulip
  • 9 / Hegel's Grapes
  • Part IV. Postmodern Plant-Subjects
  • 10 / Heidegger's Apple Tree
  • 11 / Derrida's Sunflowers
  • 12 / Irigaray's Water Lily
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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