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actuality, 22, 26–34, 48, 83, 85, 117, 126, 129, 178, 190, 229
aesthetics, xiv–xv, xviii, 66, 109, 124, 134–39, 146–51, 157, 198–99, 206
Arendt, Hannah, 64, 66, 173; Love and Saint Augustine, 64
Aristotle: De Anima, 12, 27, 234n36; De Plantis, 34; Metaphysics, 22, 26; The Movement of Animals, 25; Nicomachean Ethics, 22, 36; On Generation and Corruption, 33; Physics, 22, 28; Politics, 22, 35–37, 232n11; Rhetoric, 24
Augustine, Saint: The City of God, 65–66, 68, 70–71, 75; Confessions, 54, 59–61, 64, 66–69, 72, 76
Avicenna (ibn Sīnā); The Cannon of Medicine (Qanun), 79–80, 88, 95; A Compendium on the Soul, 93–94; The Metaphysics of The Healing, 82; Treatise on Love, 90–91, 93
Baracchi, Claudia, 27, 232n7; Aristotle’s Ethics as First Philosophy, 27
beauty, 9–10, 63, 65, 90, 108–9, 133–39, 142, 147–50, 175–76, 200, 232n7; free, 150
Bernstein, Jay M.: The Fate of Art, 138
blaue Blume (blue flower), 211
blossom, xiv–xv, 12, 43, 48–49, 56, 133, 139, 167, 169, 178–85, 189, 190–91, 207–8, 215, 217–21, 224, 228–29, 244n33
botany, botanical, xiii, xvi-xviii, 7–8, 13, 34–35, 48, 71–72, 75, 110, 123–24, 139, 142, 158, 168, 170, 206–8, 210, 216
branches, 6, 9, 26, 39–40, 42–43, 55, 75–76, 103, 108, 112, 120–21, 124, 140, 159, 177, 183, 186, 222, 229
breath, xvii, 54, 69, 72, 83, 162, 170, 207, 213, 215–16, 222, 224, 226–27
causes: efficient, 26–27, 29, 83, 142; final, 27, 29, 34–35, 45; first, 29, 92, 106; formal, 27, 29, 142; material, 22, 26
Christianity, 28, 41, 53, 60–61, 64–65, 68, 70, 73, 99–100, 105, 155
“circumcision of the heart,” 61
classification, 7, 9, 11, 23, 37, 40, 88, 122, 138, 150, 181, 201
contemplation, xv, 7, 10, 12, 30–31, 44–46, 50, 66, 101, 136–37, 213–15, 220–21
cultivation, 8, 15, 23, 35–36, 41, 43, 121, 124–25, 134, 154, 181, 202, 204, 214, 217–21, 227–29, 243n6
culture, 15, 35, 135, 153–54, 159, 166, 169, 178, 180, 199, 201–2, 211, 214, 220, 222, 225, 228
death, xiv, 16, 41, 49, 53, 69, 71–72, 80, 84, 91, 98, 104, 112, 141, 145, 156, 173, 180, 186–90, 205–6, 226, 229
Derrida, Jacques: Circumfessions, 62; Glas, 198–200; Margins of Philosophy, 203; Negotiations, 194; The Postcard, 195, 198, 202, 207; The Truth in Painting, 137
desire, 12–15, 42, 44–46, 49, 52, 59–60, 74–75, 90–93, 135, 180, 204, 215, 221, 228, 232n7
“disenchantment of the world,” 110
essence, 24, 49, 50–51, 76, 101, 103, 117, 126–27, 154, 156–57, 167, 200, 205, 217
excess, 4, 43, 67, 80–82, 85, 91–92, 108, 118, 121, 135, 140, 166, 193, 195, 204, 216, 219
existence, xv, 11, 18, 22, 33, 35, 40, 47–48, 50, 52–54, 71, 73–77, 82–84, 87, 90–94, 98, 100–105, 107, 110, 112, 117, 119, 126–28, 136–37, 140–44, 146, 156, 166, 168–70, 174, 178–81, 186–90, 193–95, 197, 220, 222, 224, 226, 229, 234n36; Necessary Existent, 92
Fardella, Michel Angelo, 130
freedom, 33, 44, 54, 112, 135, 137, 139, 141, 150, 160, 164, 166, 199, 206, 215, 229
Freud, Sigmund, 32, 163, 204; polymorphous perversity, 165
garden, xiv, xvii, 56, 115–22, 124, 126, 129, 198; Garden of Eden, 177; literary, 6; pepper, 150
generation and regeneration, 26, 28–29, 34, 44–45, 52, 55–56, 75, 91, 101, 217
germination, xiv, 17, 24, 27, 48–49, 73, 91, 106–7, 109, 112, 133–34, 159, 179, 186, 194, 202–5, 224, 226
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 161, 168; The Metamorphosis of Plants, 161
grass, xv, 4–6, 8, 23, 28, 116–20, 123, 126–27, 130, 229; blade of, 28, 116–20, 126–27, 229
growth, xiii-xvi, 6–7, 12, 15–17, 33, 35, 41, 43–45, 47, 49, 54–55, 67, 82, 84–85, 90, 94–95, 98, 100, 104, 106–7, 109, 118, 129, 140–43, 159–60, 163, 165, 168–70, 179, 186–87, 193, 195, 201, 205, 213–14, 217–20, 222, 224–28; activity, 51–52; faculty, 84–85, 91, 95; principle, 42, 45, 49–50, 52–53, 55; thought, 47–48, 50
Hall, Matthew: Plants as Persons, 145
Hallé, Francis: In Praise of Plants, 186
Hegel, G. W. F.: Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences, 158, 167; Lectures on the Philosophy of History, 169; Phenomenology of Spirit, 154, 167; Philosophy of Right, 162, 164
Heidegger, Martin: Being and Time, 178–79, 188–89; The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, 182; “The Origin of the Work of Art,” 181; Phenomenological Interpretations of Aristotle, 186; What Is Called Thinking?, 178, 190; Zollikon Seminar, 176
herbarium, 22, 41, 198; botanical, xvi-xvii; intellectual, xv-xviii, 16, 23, 40, 134, 170, 175–76, 198, 210, 216; living, xvii
hierarchy, 6, 14–15, 56, 81, 84, 86–89, 94, 100, 125, 128–30, 175, 181, 228
Ideas, xiii, xv, xvii, 9–11, 16–18, 23–24, 111, 140–43, 150, 173–76, 178, 181, 190–91, 197, 203–4, 226–27; clear, 123; marketplace of, 158, 169; “midwife of,” 17; vs. ideals, 142–43
infinity, 28–29, 34–35, 40, 76, 91, 94, 117, 120–23, 128–30, 158, 177, 215, 219, 228; “bad,” 160
interiority (subjective), 33, 62, 164
Irigaray, Luce: “Belief Itself,” 217; Elemental Passions, 217; I Love to You, 213; In the Beginning, She Was, 219; To Be Two, 215
Joseph ben Judah of Ceuta, Rabbi, 102
judgment, 6, 71, 88, 99, 133, 138–39, 148, 150, 199; aesthetic, 136, 138, 148, 151; of God, 106; teleological, 140
Kant, Immanuel: “Copernican turn,” 137, 147–48; Critique of Judgment, 133, 137, 140, 149; Critique of Practical Reason, 137, 143; Critique of Pure Reason, 137; The Metaphysics of Morals, 143, 147; Opus Postumum, 140
knowledge, 3, 5, 10, 13, 23, 60–62, 76, 80, 88–89, 94–95, 103, 105, 123, 125, 136–37, 139–41, 147, 149, 158, 168, 204, 215, 218, 225
laws, 5, 14, 29, 60–61, 74, 97, 105, 107–9, 116, 118, 141, 146, 175, 235n8; of continuity, 123–24, 127; Leibniz’s, 115–16, 120–21; moral, 144, 148; natural, 70; of physics, 95, 176–77; of property, 98; of Sabbath, 100; of understanding, 148–49
leaves, 13–14, 34, 39, 42, 46, 48, 75–76, 112, 116–17, 121, 123, 128, 130, 139–40, 142, 147, 161–62, 168–69, 184, 197, 215
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm: divine machines, 121; identity of indiscernables, 115–17, 119, 123; Monadology, 120–21, 129; New Essays on Human Understanding, 127, 236n4; “Primary Truths,” 117; sufficient reason, 116, 119, 126; Theodicy, 127, 237n39
logos, xvi, 6–7, 47–48, 50, 52, 188, 205–8, 216, 219–21, 225–27
love, xiii, 5, 52, 60–61, 64, 68, 73–74, 90–93, 95, 105, 143–44, 147, 195–96, 201, 207, 210, 213, 215, 221–23, 225, 227–28, 232n7
Maimonides (Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon): Book of Acquisitions (Qinyan), 98, 107; Book of Agriculture (Zeraim), 109; Book of Cleanliness (Tahara), 106–7; Book of Seasons (Zemanim), 99, 107; The Guide for the Perplexed, 102, 105; Medicinal Plants, 110; Mishneh Torah, 97, 108
marijuana, wild (Cannabis sativa), 165
matter, 21–22, 24, 37, 41, 43–44, 48, 54, 73–74, 81–83, 85, 88, 92, 100, 102, 117–18, 120–25, 129–30, 141, 146, 176, 195, 208–9, 214, 225, 232n1
memory, 33, 48, 67, 69, 88, 99, 122, 135, 156, 183, 198
metamorphosis, xiii, 5, 7, 69, 135, 153, 162, 167–68, 178, 220, 224, 229, 231n3
metaphor, 3, 16, 24–25, 37, 55, 64, 67–68, 74, 121, 154, 156, 167, 181, 196–97, 201, 204, 208, 220
metaphysics, 29, 41, 45, 54, 67, 81, 89, 100–101, 112, 116–17, 126–28, 130, 169, 175, 177–78, 182, 186–87, 191, 203, 205–7, 209, 213, 216–20, 223, 227; of presence, 204–5; Western, 177, 196
Miller, Elaine: The Vegetative Soul, 163, 220
mind, xv, 6, 12, 17, 46–48, 50–52, 88, 94, 190; as “blank slate,” 118; “stomach of,” 67; and substance, 125, 127
minerals, 17, 81, 84, 102–3, 106, 126, 155, 159–60, 183, 210, 225
movement, 9–10, 29, 72, 82, 84, 103–4, 129, 159–60, 169, 182, 195–97, 205, 215, 219, 223
myth, 3, 5–6, 21, 37, 68, 110–11, 216, 221; of the Cave, 4, 16–17; of Er, 7
nature, 11, 14–15, 25–26, 29, 31, 35–36, 44, 55–56, 60, 76, 86, 89–90, 98, 100, 107, 109, 112, 116, 123–24, 127, 139, 142, 149–50, 153–59, 168, 179, 184, 190, 199, 201–2, 205, 210, 213–14, 219–20, 222, 224–29, 237n39; afterlife of, 170; and equilibrium, 36, 82, 103; goddesses, 216; inorganic, 110; natura naturans, 99, 183, 209; organic, 81, 178; poverty of, 83–84; rape of, 218; truth of, xiii
“negative attributes,” 102
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 41, 67, 100, 175, 178, 187, 190, 203, 209, 218, 226
nourishment, xviii, 9–10, 12, 17, 25, 31–32, 44–45, 47, 54, 66, 72–73, 75, 83–85, 88–89, 91, 94, 104, 135, 155, 159, 170, 200, 202, 213, 222, 224–25
Novalis, 55–56; Heinrich von Ofterdingen, 211
Nymphaea nelumbo. See lotus
ontology, xiii, 27, 30–31, 56, 75, 81, 85, 93, 101, 104, 108, 116–17, 122, 125, 137, 142, 163–64, 176, 178–79, 183, 185–86, 188–90, 219, 227
organism, 25–26, 31, 33, 40, 44, 47, 49, 67, 74, 80, 85, 91, 104, 129, 137, 141, 149, 160, 162, 168, 173, 186; sessile, 128
“parts/whole” problem, 14, 23–26, 34, 43, 49, 56, 104, 121, 126, 140–42, 161
perception, 12, 51–52, 86–90, 102–3, 116, 128, 133, 178, 215; dull, 127; intellectual, 105
phenomena, 24, 31, 46, 53, 72, 104, 126, 147, 188–89, 205, 232n7
Plato: divided line, 16, 226; Phaedrus, 4, 7, 11, 23, 119, 216; The Republic, 4, 7, 14, 16–17; sun/good analogy, 16–17, 76; Symposium, 5; Timaeus, 8, 39; two-world theory, 16–17
possibility, 46, 67, 117, 119, 126, 162, 166, 180, 189, 196, 220, 225; abstract, 49; “blossoming of,” 229; conditions of, 95, 139, 142, 147, 208; logical, 100; nonactualizable, 178, 187, 190; worlds, 40
psyche, xiii, 9, 14, 18, 30, 44, 47, 53, 62, 72, 74, 81, 88–89, 94, 104, 207
purpose, 10, 23, 31–32, 34–35, 45, 141, 149–50, 160, 182; purposiveness without, 147, 149, 151
Raphael: School of Athens, 23
reflection, xiv, xvii, 9, 37, 41, 170, 177, 194, 196, 219, 221
reproduction, xiv, xvi, 12, 24, 27–29, 31–32, 34–35, 55, 65–66, 72–73, 80, 82–83, 85–86, 88, 90–91, 118, 121, 137, 141, 146, 149, 157, 160, 165–67, 169, 176, 178, 201, 203, 206–7, 224–25; asexual, 187
root, xiv, 8–13, 15, 17–18, 24, 32, 42–44, 49–51, 54–55, 64, 70, 75, 98, 103, 106–7, 109–11, 121, 126, 142–43, 150, 159, 175, 179–80, 186, 191, 193–95, 201, 213–14, 218, 222–23, 226, 229, 244n33
Sartre, Jean-Paul; Nausea, 193–94
self-: actualization, 29, 53; consciousness, 156–57; expression, 117–18, 127; feeling, 160; fertilization, 166; generation, 82; knowledge, 93–94, 125, 168; love, 221; movement, 13; negation, 162–63, 187, 222; reflection, 120, 123–24, 165, 167, 169; respect, 146
sexual: difference, 74, 213, 218, 221, 228; identity, 206; morphology, 165; organs, 66, 206, 220
Shakespeare, William: Hamlet, 120
sharing, 12, 15, 27, 55, 85, 104, 164, 187–88, 214, 221–22, 228
signaling, 13, 110, 161; biochemical, 146; cell-to-cell transport, 161; electrical, 46; hormonal transmission, 161
singularity, 97, 99, 127, 130, 133–35, 137–39, 149, 151, 162, 174, 176, 186–87, 197, 228
Sloterdijk, Peter: Spheres, 185
Sophie (princess of Hanover), 115
soul: appetitive, 12, 14–15, 45, 52; augmentative, 84, 88, 91, 95; care for, xiii; imaginative, 108; nutritive, 52, 103, 105, 108; rational, 9, 14, 88; spirited, 14, 44
“state of exception,” 98, 109
substance, xvii, 8–10, 13, 47, 55, 68, 88, 90, 118–20, 125, 127–30, 157, 167–68, 175, 177, 236n4; extended, 22
symbolism, 15, 18, 23, 31, 41, 60, 62, 66, 68–69, 73, 75, 77, 93, 112, 135, 155–56, 159, 166, 168, 174–75, 181–84, 191, 195–97, 199, 201, 204, 211, 214, 220
tournesol (see ‘sunflower’), 195–96
transcriptional reprogramming, 142–43
tulip, 123, 133–39, 142, 148–50, 198–99, 206, 238n4: festival (Ottawa), 136: mania, 123, 135, 238n4
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), 80
von Alvensleben, Carl August, 115, 117
von Uexküll, Jacob: A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans, 185
Whitehead, Alfred North, 5
wood, 21–22, 24, 37, 73–74, 98, 111, 134, 147, 208–9, 232n1, 235n8
world: being-in-the, 182; forming, 181; poor in, 181; surrounding, 181, 185; virtualization of, 197