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Vegetal Sex: Philosophy of Plants (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350274921)
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xThis book introduces the reader to the exciting new field of plant philosophy and takes it in a new direction to ask: what does it mean to say that plants are sexed? Do 'male' and 'female' really mean the same when applied to humans, trees, fungi and algae? Are the zoological categories of sex really adequate for understanding the - uniquely 'dibiontic' - life cycle of plants?
Vegetal Sexaddresses these questions through a detailed analysis of major moments in the history of plant sex, from Aristotle to the modern day. Tracing the transformations in the analogy between animals and plants that characterize this history, it shows how the analogy still functions in contemporary botany and asks: what would a non-zoocentric, plant-centred philosophy of vegetal sex be like?
By showing how philosophy and botany have been and still are inextricably entwined, Vegetal Sex allows us to think vegetal being and, perhaps, to recognize the vegetal in us all.
Author: Stella Sandford
ISBN-10: 1350274925
ISBN-13: 9781350274921
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 11/03/2022
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2023
Vegetal Sexaddresses these questions through a detailed analysis of major moments in the history of plant sex, from Aristotle to the modern day. Tracing the transformations in the analogy between animals and plants that characterize this history, it shows how the analogy still functions in contemporary botany and asks: what would a non-zoocentric, plant-centred philosophy of vegetal sex be like?
By showing how philosophy and botany have been and still are inextricably entwined, Vegetal Sex allows us to think vegetal being and, perhaps, to recognize the vegetal in us all.
Author: Stella Sandford
ISBN-10: 1350274925
ISBN-13: 9781350274921
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 11/03/2022
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2023
By Stella Sandford
xStella Sandford is Professor of Modern European Philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University London, UK. She is author of numerous works including Plato and Sex (2010), How to Read Beauvoir (2006), and The Metaphysics of Love: Gender and Transcendence in Levinas (2000) and co-editor, with Mandy Merck, of Further Adventures of the Dialectic of Sex: Critical Essays on Shulamith Firestone (2010) and, with Peter Osborne, Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity (2002).
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