The language of plants : science, philosophy, literature

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The language of plants : science, philosophy, literature

Monica Gagliano, John C. Ryan, and Patrícia Vieira, editors

University of Minnesota Press, c2017

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The eighteenth-century naturalist Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) argued that plants are animate, living beings and attributed them sensation, movement, and a certain degree of mental activity, emphasizing the continuity between humankind and plant existence. Two centuries later, the understanding of plants as active and communicative organisms has reemerged in such diverse fields as plant neurobiology, philosophical posthumanism, and ecocriticism. The Language of Plants brings together groundbreaking essays from across the disciplines to foster a dialogue between the biological sciences and the humanities and to reconsider our relation to the vegetal world in new ethical and political terms. Viewing plants as sophisticated information-processing organisms with complex communication strategies (they can sense and respond to environmental cues and play an active role in their own survival and reproduction through chemical languages) radically transforms our notion of plants as unresponsive beings, ready to be instrumentally appropriated. By providing multifaceted understandings of plants, informed by the latest developments in evolutionary ecology, the philosophy of biology, and ecocritical theory, The Language of Plants promotes the freedom of imagination necessary for a new ecological awareness and more sustainable interactions with diverse life forms. Contributors: Joni Adamson, Arizona State U; Nancy E. Baker, Sarah Lawrence College; Karen L. F. Houle, U of Guelph; Luce Irigaray, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris; Erin James, U of Idaho; Richard Karban, U of California at Davis; Andre Kessler, Cornell U; Isabel Kranz, U of Vienna; Michael Marder, U of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU); Timothy Morton, Rice U; Christian Nansen, U of California at Davis; Robert A. Raguso, Cornell U; Catriona Sandilands, York U.

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Contents Introduction Monica Gagliano, John C. Ryan, and Patricia Vieira Part I. Science 1. The Language of Plant Communication (and How it Compares to Animal Communication) Richard Karban 2. Speaking in Chemical Tongues: Decoding the Language of Plant Volatiles Robert A. Raguso and Andre Kessler 3. Unravelling the "Radiometric Signals" from Green Leaves Christian Nansen 4. Breaking the Silence: Green Mudras and the Faculty of Language in Plants Monica Gagliano Part II. Philosophy 5. To Hear Plants Speak Michael Marder 6. What the Vegetal World Says to Us Luce Irigaray 7. The Intelligence of Plants and the Problem of Language: A Wittgensteinian Approach Nancy E. Baker 8. A Tree By Any Other Name: Language-use and Linguistic Responsibility Karen L. F. Houle 9. What Vegetables Are Saying about Themselves Timothy Morton Part III. Literature 10. The Language of Flowers in Popular Culture and Botany Isabel Kranz 11. Phytographia: Literature as Plant Writing Patricia Vieira 12. Insinuations: Thinking Plant Politics with The Day of the Triffids Joni Adamson and Catriona Sandilands 13. What the Plant Says: Plant Narrators and the Ecosocial Imaginary Erin James 14. In the Key of Green?: The Silent Voices of Plants in Poetry John C. Ryan Acknowledgments Contributors Index

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