Coccia Emanuele - The Life Of Plants A Metaphysics Of Mixture - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: We barely talk about them and seldom know their names. Philosophy has always overlooked them; even biology considers them as mere decoration on the tree of life. And yet plants give life to the Earth: they produce the atmosphere that surrounds us they are the origin of the oxygen that animates us. Plants embody the most direct elementary connection that life can establish with the world. In this highly original book Emanuele Coccia argues that as the very creator of atmosphere plants occupy the fundamental position from which we should analyze all elements of life. From this standpoint we can no longer perceive the world as a simple collection of objects or as a universal space containing all things but as the site of a veritable metaphysical mixture. Since our atmosphere is rendered possible through plants alone life only perpetuates itself through the very circle of consumption undertaken by plants. In other words life exists only insofar as it consumes other life removing any moral or ethical considerations from the equation. In contrast to trends of thought that discuss nature and the cosmos in general terms Coccia's account brings the infinitely small together with the infinitely big offering a radical redefinition of the place of humanity within the realm of life.
Title: The Life Of Plants A Metaphysics Of Mixture
Author(s): Coccia Emanuele
Publisher: John Wiley And Sons Ltd
Barcode: 9781509531530
Pages: 176 Pages
Publication Date: 12/17/2018
Category: The Environment