{"product_id":"plant-thinking-michael-marder-9780231161244","title":"Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Marder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231161247\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231161244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/19\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2013","brand":"Michael Marder","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48152949227775,"sku":"9780231161244","price":140.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7399ab25-c7d8-47d4-9bf0-4e61771a3278.jpg?v=1770780277","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/plant-thinking-michael-marder-9780231161244","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}