A Philosophy of Stories Plants Tell

IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Narrative Culture Pub Date : 2023-08-05 DOI:10.1353/ncu.2023.a903844

Michael Marder

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Abstract

Abstract:Plants are habitually viewed as mute living beings, existing without the possibility of self-expression. In this essay, I suggest that plants not only silently tell us something (indeed, a great deal) about themselves and the world, but also that they tell stories, rendering witness accounts about life and death, light and darkness, middles, beginnings, and ends. After correlating vegetal storytelling with the ancient muthos that survives the onslaught of logos, I concentrate on three levels of this storytelling: (1) the story of plant life; (2) stories of plant communities; and (3) stories of individual plants. Jointly, these three levels comprise the philosophy of stories plants tell.

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植物讲故事的哲学

摘要：植物通常被视为沉默的生物，存在时没有自我表达的可能性。在这篇文章中，我建议植物不仅无声地告诉我们关于自己和世界的一些事情（事实上，很多），而且它们还讲述故事，见证关于生与死、光明与黑暗、中间、开始和结束的故事。在将植物故事与在理性冲击下幸存下来的古老穆托斯联系起来之后，我专注于这种故事的三个层面：（1）植物生命的故事；（2）植物群落的故事；和（3）个体植物的故事。这三个层次共同构成了植物讲述故事的哲学。

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Narrative Culture HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： Narrative Culture is a new journal that conceptualizes narration as a broad and pervasive human practice, warranting a holistic perspective that grasps the place of narrative comparatively across time and space. The journal invites contributions that document, discuss and theorize narrative culture, and offers a platform that integrates approaches spread across various disciplines. The field of narrative culture thus outlined is defined by a large variety of forms of popular narratives, including not only oral and written texts, but also narratives in images, three-dimensional art, customs, rituals, drama, dance, music, and so forth. Narrative Culture is peer-reviewed and international as well as interdisciplinary in orientation.