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9%OFFJeffrey T. Nealon - Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetable Life - 9780804796750 - V9780804796750
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Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetable Life

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Description for Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetable Life Paperback. This book joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask what changes in our present humanities debates about biopower and Animal Studies if we take plants as a linchpin for thinking about biopolitics. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 254.

In our age of ecological disaster, this book joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask how our present debates about biopower and animal studies change if we take plants as a linchpin for thinking about biopolitics. Logically enough, the book uses animal studies as a way into the subject, but it does so in unexpected ways. Upending critical approaches of biopolitical regimes, it argues that it is plants rather than animals that are the forgotten and abjected forms of life under humanist biopower. Indeed, biopolitical theory has consistently sidestepped the issue of vegetable life, and more recently, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804796750
SKU
V9780804796750
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About Jeffrey T. Nealon
Jeffrey T. Nealon is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University.

Reviews for Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetable Life
"In this powerful and original book, Jeffrey Nealon engages some of today's urgent problems, giving us a new perspective on both the ethical issues raised by recent work in animal studies and related disciplines and the political issues at stake in any analysis of biopower and neoliberalism."
Steven Shaviro
Wayne State University
"Ironic but mercifully not postmodern, ... Read more

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