accommodates plants’ constitutive subjectivity, drastically different from that of human beings, and describes their world from the hermeneutical perspective of vegetal ontology (i.e., from the standpoint of the plant itself)”
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So, in addition to the “vegetal différance” and “plants’ proto-writing” (112) associated with Derrida, we’re told that plant thinking “bears a close resemblance to the ‘thousand plateaus’” (84) of Deleuze and Guattari. At the same time, plant thinking is “formally reminiscent of Heidegger’s conclusions apropos of Dasein” (95),
So it’s that kind of book.
Just so everyone is clear: this is the kind of “philosophy” that, in the States or the UK, would be done only at unranked programs or in English departments.
The review literally name checks every figure of shitty continental philosophy.
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So it’s that kind of book.
Just so everyone is clear: this is the kind of “philosophy” that, in the States or the UK, would be done only at unranked programs or in English departments.
The review literally name checks every figure of shitty continental philosophy.