winner of a National Book Award

Was ist Stille

It is just as much a matter of design and economics as of politics and administration

or types of places—its subject as such—the reading is intendedly multi-directional

The Life of Plants - A Metaphysics of Mixture David Abram winner of a National BookA favourite book of Ludwig Fischer, selected for our 2018 Rewind. We barely talk about them and seldom know their names. Philosophy has always overlooked them; even biology considers them as mere decoration on the tree of life. And yet plants give life to the Earth: they produce the atmosphere that surrounds us, they are the origin of the oxygen that animates us. Plants embody the most direct, elementary connection that life can establish with the