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Plant theory : biopower and vegetable life /

In our age of ecological disaster, this book joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask how our present debates about biopower and animal studies change if we take plants as a linchpin for thinking about biopolitics. Logically enough, the book uses animal studies as a way in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nealon, Jeffrey T. (Jeffrey Thomas) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface : plant theory?
  • The first birth of biopower : from plant to animal life in Foucault
  • Thinking plants, with Aristotle and Heidegger
  • Animal and plant, life and world in Derrida, or, The plant and the sovereign
  • From the world to the territory : vegetable life in Deleuze and Guattari, or, What is a rhizome?
  • Coda : what difference does it make?