Book ID: CBB047084846

Philosophie Du Végétal (2019)

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Hiernaux, Quentin (Editor)
Timmermans, Benoît (Editor)


Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 182
Language: French

Bien que centrales dans nos vies dont elles sont des conditions absolues d'existence, les plantes ont tres peu occupe l'esprit des philosophes classiques. Depuis quelques annees, cependant, l'etude des plantes revele des processus inconnus de communication, de reproduction, de regeneration, pour n'en citer que quelques-uns, qui nous invitent a repenser la vie, la mort, l'individu, l'espece, voire l'intelligence ou la conscience que certains appliquent de plus en plus ouvertement aux vegetaux. Plus qu'une critique sterile de l'anthropomorphisme et de l'universalisme reducteurs, une philosophie du vegetal est un veritable moteur pour la creation de nouvelles formes intellectuelles et pour reflechir les enjeux technoscientifiques, environnementaux et ethiques de notre rapport a la nature. Sans dessiner une ligne directrice unique, ce volume contribue a elargir un nouveau champ d'interrogations et de recherches. Ce volume reunit les textes d'un botaniste, d'une geneticienne des populations vegetales, d'historiens de la botanique et de philosophes qui, tous, pensent que la philosophie peut etre utile a la botanique, et reciproquement.

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Review Fabrizio Baldassarri (2019) Review of "Philosophie Du Végétal". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (p. 56). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Matei, Oana
Asselin, Alain
Mirren, Helen
Elizabeth Chang
Polger, Thomas W.
Cayouette, Jacques
Concepts
Botany
Plants
Science and literature
Consciousness
Philosophy of science
Medicinal plants
Time Periods
19th century
17th century
16th century
Early modern
Ancient
18th century
Places
England
Great Britain
Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
Guyana; British Guiana
Amazon River Region (South America)
South Africa
Institutions
Vilniaus universitetas
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