Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetable Life

by Jeffrey Nealon and Jeffrey T. Nealon

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804796750
• ISBN13: 9780804796750
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"