Plants in Place: A Phenomenology of the Vegetal

by Michael Marder and Edward S. Casey

Plants are commonly considered immobile, in contrast to humans and other animals. But vegetal existence involves many place-based forms of change: stems growing upward, roots spreading outward, fronds unfurling in response to sunlight, seeds traveling across wide distances, and other intricate relationships with the surrounding world. How do plants as sessile, growing, decaying, and metamorphosing beings shape the places they inhabit, and how are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023121345X
• ISBN13: 9780231213455
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"