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Despite the opinion, prevalent today both in academic and non-academic quarters, that philosophy is a thing of the past, a thing to be found exclusively in the textbooks of intellectual history, the love of wisdom is flourishing like never before. Having thrown off the straight-jackets of metaphysical reasoning, living thought turns towards corporeity stamped by finitude and sexual difference, to the world around us, to the rhythms of the earth, and to a wealth of non-Western philosophical traditions.
A version of this text was previously published in Michael Marder, The Philosopher’s Plant: An Intellectual Herbarium (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014). It is reproduced here with the kind permission of Columbia University Press.
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Marder, M. (2015). Afterword — Cultivating Natural Belonging: Luce Irigaray’s Water Lily. In: Irigaray, L., Marder, M. (eds) Building a New World. Palgrave Studies in Postmetaphysical Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137453020_21
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