Rootedness : the ramifications of a metaphor
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Rootedness : the ramifications of a metaphor
The University of Chicago Press, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-267) and index
Contents of Works
- Welcome to the rhizosphere ; Some thoughts on metaphor ; Generation radix ; Home is where the root is ; Jung and Bachelard go deep: the root as subconscious image ; Radical evil: of mandrakes and Wurzelmännchen
- Radical poetry ; Ponge and the plant's immobility ; Into thin air: Celan's "radix, matrix" ; Guillevic's radical trying ; The awkward human: Levertov and ecological alienation
- Roots and transcendence ; Verticality and the root ; Claudel's rooted crucifix ; Valéry and the vegetal brain ; Inversion and conversion ; Monsieur Teste, botanical thinker ; Tournier and the upending of Western culture
- Saving Europe from itself : Weil's enracinement and Heidegger's Bodenständigkeit ; Talk of roots in the air: la querelle du peuplier ; Weil's fear of abstraction ; Heidegger the terroiriste
- Sartre, phenomenology, and the root ; The nausea-inducing root of being ; Sartre's autobiographical tree ; Phenomenology's search for ground
- Etymology and essence: the primeval power of word roots ; The etymological obsession ; German ideological etymology ; Paulhan's etymological skepticism ; Derrida's deracination of language ; Blanchot and the etymon's danger
- From rhizome to vegetal democracy ; The cryptic rhizome of Deleuze and Guattari ; The postmodern plantation ; Neo-paganism and plant democracy