The margins of philosophy are populated by non-human, non-animal
living beings, including plants. While contemporary philosophers
tend to refrain from raising ontological and ethical concerns with
vegetal life, Michael Marder puts this life at the forefront of the
current deconstruction of metaphysics. He identifies the
existential features of plant behavior and the vegetal heritage of
human thought so as to affirm the potential of vegetation to resist
the logic of totalization and to exceed the narrow confines of
instrumentality. Reconstructing the life of plants "after
metaphysics," Marder focuses on their unique temporality, freedom,
and material knowledge or wisdom. In his formulation,
"plant-thinking" is the non-cognitive, non-ideational, and
non-imagistic mode of thinking proper to plants, as much as the
process of bringing human thought itself back to its roots and
rendering it plantlike.
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