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Philosophy's privileging of reason has come at the expense of nonhuman forms of life, but most especially it has excluded plant life from the realm of moral concern. Motivated by a conviction that "philosophy cannot be left untouched by…the ecocides of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries," Marder (Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy, Univ. of the Basque Country; Plant-Thinking) confronts philosophical denigration of the vegetal. In chronological order, he recounts vari...Log In or Sign Up to Read More