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
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).
Eloquent, descriptively rich, and insightful
*Yale Climate Connections*
Brilliant and astounding. Casey and Marder revolutionize our notion
of place through a meditation on the being of plants. Place becomes
a dynamic symbiosis with vegetal life such that it cannot be
measured, quantified, or mastered. Nothing short of a paradigm
shift in the way we think about both plants and place.
*Kelly Oliver, author of Earth and World: Philosophy After the
Apollo Missions*
This singular work is not only timely but also vitally important in
this age of planetary environmental crisis and existential
estrangement from the Earth itself. The product of a unique
collaboration between two prominent philosophers, Casey and
Marder's Plants in Place enables us to reimagine our natural
interconnectedness, spurring us on to be more actively engaged with
not only the preservation of plant-beings and the myriad other
entities that depend on them for their very life, but also with the
immense pleasure that attends our interaction with the vegetal
world.
*Brian Schroeder, Rochester Institute of Technology*
In this extraordinary book, two of our most respected and inspiring
contemporary philosophers invite us to new paths of thought
regarding the mystery of places. In their phytophenomenology, they
disclose how places are plants, multidirectional flourishing,
upward and downward branching, spreading in the open air and in the
night of the underground. Traditional distinctions between mobility
and immobility, place and time, measure and the measureless lose
their evidence. From the viewpoint of the placiality of plants, of
the mysterious ways a plant shows the taking place of places, this
book shakes dominant presuppositions about what it means to be in
places and to be a place. Discovering how places are plants and
planted rather than occupied and planned, how they are emergences
and not only constructions, this book asks humans to learn to be
with plant places and to find new modes of coexistence: an urgent
task.
*Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Södertörn University, Sweden*
Plants in Place is a philosophically exciting book that provokes
and inspires. Casey and Marder explore the relation between plants
and place, and the interconnection of plants with places, in the
process articulating an innovative philosophical vision that offers
a new way of seeing and thinking about the world.
*Jeff Malpas, author of In the Brightness of Place: Topological
Thinking In and After Heidegger*
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