Plants in Place

A Phenomenology of the Vegetal

Edward S. Casey, Michael Marder (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2023
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-21345-5 (ISBN)

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Plants are commonly considered immobile, in contrast to humans and other animals. But vegetal existence involves many place-based forms of change: stems growing upward, roots spreading outward, fronds unfurling in response to sunlight, seeds traveling across wide distances, and other intricate relationships with the surrounding world. How do plants as sessile, growing, decaying, and metamorphosing beings shape the places they inhabit, and how are they shaped by them? How do human places interact with those of plants—in lived experience; in landscape painting; in cultivation and contemplation; in forests, fields, gardens, and cities?

Examining these questions and many more, Plants in Place is a collaborative study of vegetal phenomenology at the intersection of Edward S. Casey’s phenomenology of place and Michael Marder’s plant-thinking. It focuses on both the microlevel of the dynamic constitution of plant edges or a child’s engagement with moss and the macrolevel of habitats that include the sociality of trees. This compelling portrait of plants and their places provides readers with new ways to appreciate the complexity and vitality of vegetal life. Eloquent, descriptively rich, and insightful, the book also shows how the worlds of plants can enhance our understanding and experience of place more broadly.

Edward S. Casey is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His many books include, most recently, Turning Emotion Inside Out: Affective Life Beyond the Subject (2021) and The World on Edge (2017). Michael Marder is IKERBASQUE Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Spain. His previous Columbia University Press books include Political Categories: Thinking Beyond Concepts (2019) and Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life (2013).

Preface: Walking Among Plants
Acknowledgments
1. The Placial Basis of Plant Sessility and Mobility
2. Peripheral Power: Structural Dynamics at the Edges of Plants
Interlude I. How Plants Think
3. Taking Trees Over the Edge
Interlude II. Plants Up-Close: The Case of Moss
4. The Shared Sociality of Trees, with Implications for Place
Interlude III. Plants from Afar: As Seen in Landscape Painting
5. Attachment and Detachment in the Place of Plants
Conclusion: The Fate of Places, the Fate of Plants
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Critical Life Studies
Zusatzinfo	8 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-231-21345-X / 023121345X
ISBN-13	978-0-231-21345-5 / 9780231213455
Zustand	Neuware