Description: Rethinks the soul in plant-like terms rather than animal, drawing from nineteenth-century philosophy of nature.
Brief description: Elaine P. Miller is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Miami University.
Review Quotes:
"...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