Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents viii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. PROLOGUE: HERBARIUM PHILOSOPHICUM xiii
5. Part I. Ancient Plant-Souls
6. 1 / Plato’s Plane Tree 2
7. 2 / Aristotle’s Wheat 21
8. 3 / Plotinus’ Anonymous “Great Plant” 39
9. Part II. Medieval Plant-Instruments
10. 4 / Augustine’s Pears 58
11. 5 / Avicenna’s Celery 79
12. 6 / Maimonides’ Palm Tree 97
13. Part III. Modern Plant-Images
14. 7 / Leibniz’s Blades of Grass 114
15. 8 / Kant’s Tulip 133
16. 9 / Hegel’s Grapes 153
17. Part IV. Postmodern Plant-Subjects
18. 10 / Heidegger’s Apple Tree 172
19. 11 / Derrida’s Sunflowers 193
20. 12 / Irigaray’s Water Lily 213
21. NOTES 231
22. BIBLIOGRAPHY 245
23. INDEX 255