Plant-Thinking

And it is at the same intersection that new and more daring demands arise: to extend the scope of ethical treatment and to address the diverse modes of being of all living beings, many of them deemed too insignificant and mundane to even deserve the appellation “others.”

An earlier draft of was the basis for an article, “What Is Plant-Thinking?” published in volume 25 of Klēsis: Revue philosophique (2013), dedicated to philosophies of nature.

Weak thought—pensiero debole—was first formulated in 1979 and has since become a position common to many post-metaphysical philosophers, including, among others, Richard Rorty

as Walter Benjamin would say, the “losers of history

But as the philosophy of the “weak” (which claims the right of the oppressed to interpret, vote, and live), weak thought not only follows a logic of resistance

has not developed into an organized system, because of all the violent consequences such systematization always entails. The violence of systems is often expressed through metaphysical impositions

weak thought,”3 that is to say, in the philosophy of the weak who are determined to cut the tie between politics and metaphysics

If, as it seems, there is a correspondence between the liberal capitalist states and metaphysical philosophical impositions that consider the environment as something that must be manipulated for our own purposes, philosophy has the obligation to break this deplorable alliance.