The Life of Plants
A Metaphysics of Mixture
$30.39
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
19 October 2018
Summary
We barely talk about them and seldom know their names. Philosophy has always overlooked them; even biology considers them as mere decoration on the tree of life. And yet plants give life to the Earth: they produce the atmosphere that surrounds us, they are the origin of the oxygen that animates us. Plants embody the most direct, elementary connection that life can establish with the world.
In this highly original book, Emanuele Coccia argues that, as the very creator of atmosphere, pl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509531530 |
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| ISBN-10: | 150953153X |
| Author: | Emanuele Coccia |
| Publisher: | Polity Press |
| Imprint: | Polity Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 19 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 137mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
“Back to animals! Back to mushrooms! And now back to plants! It is with plants that this marvellous, witty, and immensely literate book wants us, the human readers, to get acquainted again. And, of course, with plants it is actually toward the sun that we are reoriented. Philosophy is on the move again, not exactly forward but downward, giving a completely different meaning to what counts as a foundation to thought.”
Bruno Latour
“The view of life as interdependence is a particularly affecting and relevant way to think about living and coping in the Anthropocene, when the ways that humans affect the literal composition of the atmosphere has become the existential question of our time.”
The Nation
Emanuele Coccia
Emanuele Coccia is Associate Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris.
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