The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World

John Ryan (Ed.)

ISBN 10: 1498510590 / ISBN 13: 9781498510592

Published by Lexington Books, 2015

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Editor(s): Ryan, John; Vieira, Dr. Patricia; Gagliano, Monica. Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice. Num Pages: 306 pages, 19 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DNF; JHM; WNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. . . 2015. Hardcover. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498510590
• ISBN 13: 9781498510592
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, intelligence.

The leading metaphor of the book―“the green thread”, echoing poet Dylan Thomas’ phrase “the green fuse”―carries multiple meanings. On a more apparent level, “the green thread” is what weaves together the diverse approaches of this collection: an interest in the vegetal that goes beyond single disciplines and specialist discourses, and one that not only encourages but necessitates interdisciplinary and even interspecies dialogue. On another level, “the green thread” links creative and historical productions to the materiality of the vegetal―a reality reflecting our symbiosis with oxygen-producing beings. In short, The Green Thread refers to the conversations about plants that transcend strict disciplinary boundaries as well as to the possibility of dialogue with plants.

About the Authors

Michael Marder is IKERBASQUE Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Global Reconstitution (IGRec), Berlin, Germany. His writings span the fields of ecological theory, phenomenology, and political thought. He is the author of numerous scientific articles and monographs, including Plant-Thinking (2013), The Philosopher's Plant (2014), Dust (2016), Energy Dreams (2017), Heidegger (2018), Political Categories (2019), Pyropolitics (2015, 2020), Dump Philosophy (2020); Hegel's Energy (2021), Green Mass (2021), Philosophy for Passengers (2022), The Phoenix Complex (2023), Time Is a Plant (2023), and, with Edward S. Casey, Plants in Place (2024). More information at michaelmarder.org.

Alan Read is Professor of Theatre at Kings College London, UK.

Hannah Stark is a Lecturer in English at the University of Tasmania, Australia.