Stella Sandford is Professor of Modern European Philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University London, UK. She is author of numerous works including Plato and Sex (2010), How to Read Beauvoir (2006), and The Metaphysics of Love: Gender and Transcendence in Levinas (2000) and co-editor, with Mandy Merck, of Further Adventures of the Dialectic of Sex: Critical Essays on Shulamith Firestone (2010) and, with Peter Osborne, Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity (2002).

Introduction

1. What is Plant Philosophy?

2. Plant Philosophy and Plant Sex: Aristotle to Albertus

3. The Joint Venture: Philosophy and Botany

4. From Analogy to Identity: The Carnival of Plant Sex

5. What are 'Male' and 'Female' in Plants?
6. Are We Family? The Mother Tree and other humans

Epilogue Vegetal sexuality and us

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