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The Language of Plants : Science, Philosophy, Literature /
The Language of Plants brings together groundbreaking essays from across the disciplines to foster a dialogue between the biological sciences and the humanities and to reconsider our relation to the vegetal world in new ethical and political terms. Viewing plants as sophisticated information-process...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- Part I. Science
- 1. The Language of Plant Communication (and How It Compares to Animal Communication)
- 2. Speaking in Chemical Tongues: Decoding the Language of Plant Volatiles
- 3. Unraveling the "Radiometric Signals" from Green Leaves
- 4. Breaking the Silence: Green Mudras and the Faculty of Language in Plants
- Part II. Philosophy
- 5. To Hear Plants Speak
- 6. What the Vegetal World Says to Us
- 7. The Intelligence of Plants and the Problem of Language: A Wittgensteinian Approach
- 8. A Tree by Any Other Name: Language Use and Linguistic Responsibility
- 9. What Vegetables Are Saying about Themselves
- Part III. Literature
- 10. The Language of Flowers in Popular Culture and Botany
- 11. Phytographia: Literature as Plant Writing
- 12. Insinuations: Thinking Plant Politics with The Day of the Triffids
- 13. What the Plant Says: Plant Narrators and the Ecosocial Imaginary
- 14. In the Key of Green? The Silent Voices of Plants in Poetry
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z.