Wisdom of Trees

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Thinking Through Arboreality

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av David Macauley, Laura Pustarfi, Brandywine) Macauley, David (Penn State University, Laura (California Institute of Integral Studies) Pustarfi, David MacAuley

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Pioneering essays that reveal the significance of new interdisciplinary understandings of trees and forests, especially in terms of their philosophical and ecological dimensions and their importance for addressing the climate emergency.This is the first book to apply philosophical thinking to trees. Through a series of sixteen diverse essays by leading scholars and writers, along with an in-depth introduction to the key issues and ideas, it examines the new and emerging understanding of trees in science and society. Contributors show how these developments encourage a revisioning of philosophical thought and a more sustainable relationship with trees and forests-a reconceptualization with important ecological and social implications for responding to deforestation, the loss of biodiversity, and the climate emergency. The interdisciplinary contributions in this collection investigate the many interconnected dimensions of arboreality, focusing on subjects related to time, mind, truth, memory, being, beauty, goodness, silence, wisdom, personhood, and death. The volume engages in a conversation about why trees matter, how they can best be protected, our obligations to them, and even what or who they are. Most of the chapters are informed by natural history or ecological science and many share a particular emphasis on continental philosophy and the environmental humanities.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-12-02
Mått152 x 229 x 31 mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
Antal sidor472
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9798855802719

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsForewordJoan MaloofIntroduction: The Wisdom of TreesDavid Macauley and Laura PustarfiTrees as BeingsInterstice: Redwood1. Arboreality: Trees as Ontologically Valuable BeingsLaura Pustarfi2. In the Beginning She Was a Redwood: Rethinking Ontology through an Ecofeminist MaterialismKimberly CarforeThe Language of TreesInterstice: The Forest3. Speaking Trees: The Language of Nature and Arboreal CommunicationLuke Fischer4. The Silence of Primeval ForestsDaniel O'Dea BradleyThinking (Like) TreesInterstice: Arborescence5. Vegetal Imagination: Schelling and Whitehead as Exemplars of Marder's Plant-ThinkingMatthew David SegallTrees and TimeInterstice: Rings6. "Old Trees Hold Memory": Aboriginal Australian Perspectives on Memory, Trauma, and Witnessing in the Arboreal WorldJohn Charles Ryan7. Birth and Death in TreesAlphonso LingisThe Place and Ecology of TreesInterstice: Banyan8. The Place of Trees: Taking Trees over the EdgeMichael Marder and Edward S. Casey9. Organisms and Environments: What Alexander von Humboldt Learned from TreesDalia NassarTrees and AestheticsInterstice: Cypress10. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Tree: Appreciating the Beauty of the Arboreal WorldDavid Macauley11. Do Trees Sing?David RothenbergTrees and EthicsInterstice: Apple12. The Ponderosa Pines of Gold Creek: Discerning Arboreal Values for an All-Too-Human WorldJames Hatley13. Wise Trees: Exemplars in the Arts of East AsiaMara MillerLegal and Political TreesInterstice: Eucalyptus14. Philosophers with a Peculiarly Instructive Aversion toward TreesSam Mickey15. Trees as Legal PersonsEric W. OrtsAfterword: The Sequoia ArchipelagoDon Hanlon JohnsonSuggestions for Further ReadingContributorsIndex

"This richly varied collection offers a fascinating path through a forest of ruminations on trees from a wide range of perspectives. Replete with vivid insights into the arboreal universe, the disciplinary range of the contributions is remarkably broad and their topics even more so. This is a unique contribution." — Arnold Berleant, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, C. W. Post Center, Long Island University