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  • 10 - Plants and Philosophy, Plants or Philosophy

  • from Part III - Beyond the Human
  • Edited by Katharine Legun, Julie C. Keller, University of Rhode Island, Michael Carolan, Colorado State University, Michael M. Bell, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology
    Published online:
    05 November 2020
    Print publication:
    03 December 2020, pp 176-187

  • Summary

    In this chapter, I consider the double danger of objectifying plants and of treating them as subjects, modeled on the dominant, metaphysical model of subjectivity. I argue that the unconscious danger lurking in the shadows of granting subjectivity to plants, animals, and entire ecosystems is not just that global capitalism may cunningly coopt challenges to anthropocentrism but that the newfangled status of other-than-human lives may actually be the next logical step in the extension of immaterial, subjective, cognitively mediated commodities. The enlargement of the subjective sphere is conducive to the growth not of plants but of capital. Instead of these alternatives, I advocate a view of existence from the intermediary space-time of the inbetween.