The Vegetative Soul by Elaine P Miller
While providing the necessary historical context, the book also addresses a question that has been very important for recent feminist theory, especially French feminism, namely, the question of the possible configuration of a feminine subject. The idea of the "vegetative" subject takes the traditional alignment of the feminine with nature and the earth and subverts and transforms it into a positive possibility. Although the roots of this alternative conception of subjectivity can be found in Kant's third Critique and its legacy in nineteenth-century Naturphilosophie, the work of Luce Irigaray brings it to fruition.-
Being and Time
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Gadamer on Celan
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Heidegger's Ways
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A Guide to Heidegger's Being and Time
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Dialogue and Deconstruction
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The Modern Subject
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Deconstructive Subjectivities
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Nietzsche's Aesthetic Turn
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Schelling's Practice of the Wild
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The Title of the Letter
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Supplements
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Human Experience
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Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom
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Nietzsche
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Clara
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Objectivity
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The 1812 Doctrine of Right and Other Late Political Writings of J. G. Fichte
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Maurice Blanchot
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A Life of Solid Principles
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Feminist Heidegger
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This Dagger, My Heart
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Messengers of Infinity
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The Great Detour
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Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Sense
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Hunting for Justice
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A Death of the World
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Gadamer on Art and Aesthetic Experience
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The Promise of Friendship
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Of an Alien Homecoming
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In the Brightness of Place
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Freedom and Ground
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Rethinking Interiority
"…Miller is a careful reader of the tradition who makes an original contribution to the problem of feminine subject formation by the convincing connection she draws between French feminist thought and the analysis of nature" — Philosophy Today
"Kant, Goethe, Hölderlin, Hegel, and Nietzsche—there are many blossoms in Elaine Miller's garden, and all have been culled with keen intelligence and great sensibility. This is one of the finest books in the philosophy of science that I have ever read." — David Farrell Krell, DePaul University
"The vegetative metaphor itself is often unexpected, and the ways in which the text opens up many new instances of it are always intriguing. Connections are made which provide insight and new ways of perceiving—the parallels between Nietzsche's thought and Eckhart's, for example, or the tracing of common lines of thought across philosophy, science, and poetry, or the way the text brings Kant and Goethe into dialogue." — Karmen MacKendrick, author of Immemorial Silence
Elaine P. Miller is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Miami University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780791453919 |
| ISBN 10 | 079145391X |
| Title | The Vegetative Soul |
| Author | Elaine P Miller |
| Series | Suny Series In Contemporary Continental Philosophy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2002-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 260 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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