Marder, Michael.

The Philosopher's Plant : An Intellectual Herbarium. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (286 pages)

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Herbarium Philosophicum -- Part I: Ancient Plant-Souls -- 1. Plato's Plane Tree -- 2. Aristotle's Wheat -- 3. Plotinus' Anonymous "Great Plant" -- Part II. Medieval Plant-Instruments -- 4. Augustine's Pears -- 5. Avicenna's Celery -- 6. Maimonides' Palm Tree -- Part III. Modern Plant-Images -- 7. Leibniz's Blades of Grass -- 8. Kant's Tulip -- 9. Hegel's Grapes -- Part IV: Postmodern Plant-Subjects -- 10. Heidegger's Apple Tree -- 11. Derrida's Sunflowers -- 12. Irigaray's Water Lily -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

A secret history of philosophy grafting theory onto science, combining art and storytelling to bring Western thought back to its roots.

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Botany -- Philosophy.
Botany -- History.
Plants -- Adaptation.
Human-plant relationships.


Electronic books.

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