The philosopher's plant : an intellectual herbarium / Michael Marder ; with drawings by Mathilde Roussel.

Main entry:

Marder, Michael, 1980-

Title & Author:

The philosopher's plant : an intellectual herbarium / Michael Marder ; with drawings by Mathilde Roussel.

Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
©2014

Description:

xviii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-253) and index.
Plato's plain tree -- Aristotle's wheat -- Plotinus' anonymous "great plant" -- Augustine's pears -- Avicenna's celery -- Maimonides' palm tree -- Leibniz's blades of grass -- Kant's tulip -- Hegel's grapes -- Heidegger's apple tree -- Derrida's sunflowers -- Irigaray's water lily.

Summary:

"Despite their conceptual allergy to vegetal life, philosophers have used germination, growth, blossoming, fruition, reproduction, and decay as illustrations of abstract concepts; mentioned plants in passing as the natural backdrops for dialogues, letters, and other compositions; spun elaborate allegories out of flowers, trees, and even grass; and recommended appropriate medicinal, dietary, and aesthetic approaches to select species of plants."-- Amazon.com.

ISBN:

9780231169028 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0231169027 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780231169035 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0231169035 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
(e-book)
9780231538138

Subject:

Botany Philosophy.
Botany History.
Plants Adaptation.
Human-plant relationships.
Plantes Adaptation.
Relations homme-plante.
Popular Science.
Botany.
Botanik
Philosophie
Botanik teori, filosofi.
Popular Science and Mathematics.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 297596
Call No.: BIB 243959
Status: Available

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