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The Philosopher's Plant : An Intellectual Herbarium.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (286 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231538138
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Philosopher's PlantDDC classification:
  • 580.1
LOC classification:
  • QK46 -- .M36 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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