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The Green Thread is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that takes the risk of departing from the long-standing human perception of plants-defined by what they are thought to lack, including autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, arguably, intelligence-to explore new territories where the re-conceptualization of vegetal beings as active agents in social and cultural environments becomes possible.

Plants (Philosophy) --- Philosophy

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In our age of ecological disaster, this book joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask how our present debates about biopower and animal studies change if we take plants as a linchpin for thinking about biopolitics. Logically enough, the book uses animal studies as a way into the subject, but it does so in unexpected ways. Upending critical approaches of biopolitical regimes, it argues that it is plants rather than animals that are the forgotten and abjected forms of life under humanist biopower. Indeed, biopolitical theory has consistently sidestepped the issue of vegetable life, and more recently, has been outright hostile to it. Provocatively, Jeffrey T. Nealon wonders whether animal studies, which has taken the "inventor" of biopower himself to task for speciesism, has not misread Foucault, thereby managing to extend humanist biopower rather than to curb its reach. Nealon is interested in how and why this is the case. Plant Theory turns to several other thinkers of the high theory generation in an effort to imagine new futures for the ongoing biopolitical debate.

Plants (Philosophy) --- Biopolitics. --- Political behavior --- Human behavior --- Political science --- Sociobiology --- Philosophy

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The margins of philosophy are populated by non-human, non-animal living beings, including plants. While contemporary philosophers tend to refrain from raising ontological and ethical concerns with vegetal life, Michael Marder puts this life at the forefront of the current deconstruction of metaphysics. He identifies the existential features of plant behavior and the vegetal heritage of human thought so as to affirm the potential of vegetation to resist the logic of totalization and to exceed the narrow confines of instrumentality. Reconstructing the life of plants ?after metaphysics," Mar

Human-plant relationships --- Ontology --- Plants --- Flora --- Plant kingdom --- Plantae --- Vascular plants --- Vegetable kingdom --- Vegetation --- Wildlife --- Organisms --- Botany --- Being --- Philosophy --- Metaphysics --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Substance (Philosophy) --- Man and plants --- Man-plant relationships --- Plant-human relationships --- Plant-man relationships --- Plants and man --- Relationships, Human-plant --- Human beings --- Botany, Economic --- Ethnobotany --- Synanthropic plants --- Ontology. --- Human-plant relationships. --- Philosophy. --- Plants -- Philosophy. --- Philosophy of nature

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The volume analyzes the natural philosophical accounts and debates concerning the vegetative powers, namely nutrition, growth, and reproduction. While principally focusing on the early modern approaches to the lower functions of the soul, readers will discover the roots of these approaches back to the Ancient times, as the volume highlights the role of three strands that help shape the study of life in the Medieval and early modern natural philosophies. From late antiquity to the early modern period, the vegetative soul and its cognate concepts have played a substantial role in specifying life, living functions, and living bodies, sometimes blurring the line between living and non-living nature, and, at other moments, resulting in a strong restriction of life to a mechanical system of operations and powers. Unearthing the history of the vegetative soul as a shrub of interconnected concepts, the 24 contributions of the volume fill a crucial gap in scholarship, ultimately outlining the importance of vegetal processes of incessant proliferation, generation, and organic growth as the roots of life in natural philosophical interpretations.

Philosophy of science --- History of philosophy --- Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general) --- Biology --- History of human medicine --- wetenschapsgeschiedenis --- biologie --- filosofie --- geneeskunde --- geschiedenis --- wetenschapsfilosofie --- Philosophy --- Science --- Medicine --- Life sciences. --- Plants (Philosophy) --- History. --- History of Philosophy. --- History of Science. --- History of Medicine. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Life Sciences. --- Philosophy.