THE VEGETAL TURN

This book charts the multidimensional course of what has come to be known as the Vegetal Turn in environmental humanities a wave of theoretical and practical interest in the complexities and peculiarities of plant life and plant human relations The Vegetal turn consists of increasingly sophisticated inter and trans disciplinary inter and trans cultural explorations of the multiple systems and networks of communication intelligence technical operational capabilities and relations articulated by and via plants as well as the ethical economic cultural and political dimensions of plant human interactions and practices The volume includes contributions from philosophy and the humanities more generally that explore and reflect on the history prospects and applications of four main themes that the Vegetal Turn has brought to general attention the mind of plants and what their peculiar mentality can tell us about mind more generally plant personhood and or moral standing and the justifications and implications of attributions thereof plant relationships with humans plant based human relationships and the ethics of human practices with or regarding plants from agriculture to the arts from forest management to urban design as well as the rights an