{"product_id":"vegetal-sex-philosophy-of-plants-hardcover","title":"Vegetal Sex: Philosophy of Plants - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStella Sandford\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book introduces the reader to the exciting new field of plant philosophy and takes it in a new direction to ask: what does it mean to say that plants are sexed? Do 'male' and 'female' really mean the same when applied to humans, trees, fungi and algae? Are the zoological categories of sex really adequate for understanding the - uniquely 'dibiontic' - life cycle of plants?\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVegetal Sex\u003c\/i\u003eaddresses these questions through a detailed analysis of major moments in the history of plant sex, from Aristotle to the modern day. Tracing the transformations in the analogy between animals and plants that characterize this history, it shows how the analogy still functions in contemporary botany and asks: what would a non-zoocentric, plant-centred philosophy of vegetal sex be like?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy showing how philosophy and botany have been and still are inextricably entwined, \u003ci\u003eVegetal Sex\u003c\/i\u003e allows us to think vegetal being and, perhaps, to recognize the vegetal in us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStella Sandford \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Modern European Philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University London, UK. She is author of numerous works including \u003ci\u003ePlato and Sex\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), \u003ci\u003eHow to Read Beauvoir\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), and \u003ci\u003eThe Metaphysics of Love: Gender and Transcendence in Levinas\u003c\/i\u003e (2000) and co-editor, with Mandy Merck, of \u003ci\u003eFurther Adventures of the Dialectic of Sex: Critical Essays on Shulamith Firestone\u003c\/i\u003e (2010) and, with Peter Osborne, \u003ci\u003ePhilosophies of Race and Ethnicity\u003c\/i\u003e (2002).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 03, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52724127072563,"sku":"9781350274921","price":187.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/c2EyNkUyMlQwZTUvWkxaWTAraUN5QT09.webp?v=1763683262","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/vegetal-sex-philosophy-of-plants-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}