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Bilder pflanzlichen Lebens in der Philosophie

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Nietzsches Naturen
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Images of Plant Life in Philosophy. This chapter is about images of plant life in the philosophy of Nietzsche and Sartre. What can we learn from plants and the way they are rooted about the nature of humans and their place in the world? Are climate change and environmental catastrophes, from species extinctions to pandemics, the price we are paying for our increasing disconnection from our natural environment? Many voices identify this decoupling with the centrality of technical progress, capitalist production, and globalization, which are crucial for our modern self-understanding and way of life. What was supposed to be the root of human distinction has ended up uprooting us. Is this because we have a distorted view of what it means to be rooted in the first place, and our dependency on the rootedness of plant life? This chapter examines the question of how we should inhabit this planet now that our actions have made it uninhabitable for so many members of the community and what we can learn from the plant world about how to build bridges between worlds.

Abstract

Images of Plant Life in Philosophy. This chapter is about images of plant life in the philosophy of Nietzsche and Sartre. What can we learn from plants and the way they are rooted about the nature of humans and their place in the world? Are climate change and environmental catastrophes, from species extinctions to pandemics, the price we are paying for our increasing disconnection from our natural environment? Many voices identify this decoupling with the centrality of technical progress, capitalist production, and globalization, which are crucial for our modern self-understanding and way of life. What was supposed to be the root of human distinction has ended up uprooting us. Is this because we have a distorted view of what it means to be rooted in the first place, and our dependency on the rootedness of plant life? This chapter examines the question of how we should inhabit this planet now that our actions have made it uninhabitable for so many members of the community and what we can learn from the plant world about how to build bridges between worlds.

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