Giovanni Aloi is an art historian who teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His past books include Why Look at Plants? The Botanical Emergence in Contemporary Art and Lucian Freud: Herbarium.

Michael Marder is a philosopher who teaches at the University of the Basque Country. His past books include Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life and The Philosopher’s Plant: An Intellectual Herbarium.

Alternative Reading Pathways (xiii)
Introduction (1)
I Conceptions
1 The Plant: A Stranger (13)
Stefano Mancuso and Alessandra Viola
2 Maimonides' Palm Tree (25)
Michael Marder
3 Hermeneutics of Trees in an African Context: Enriching the Understanding of the Environment "For the Common Heritage of Humankind" (43)
Angela Roothaan
4 A Weed is a Plant Out of Place (61)
Allegra Pesenti
5 Nuucaanul Plants and Habitats as Reflected in Oral Traditions: Since Raven and Thunderbird Roamed (73)
Marlene Atleo (?eh ?eh nah tuu k*iss)
6 Interview with Mark Dion (87)
7 Interview with Zayaan Khan (91)
II Methodologies
8 The Human Bumblebee (97)
Michael Pollan
9 Cosmologies: Perspectivism (107)
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
10 Of Other Spaces: (Brief) Encounters (145)
Giovanni Aloi
11 Adventures in Phytophenomenology (159)
David Wood
12 Introduction to Plant-Thinking (173)
Michael Marder
13 Interview with Jonathon Keats (187)
14 Interview with Spela Petric (195)
III Engagements
15 Seeds and Plants as my Teachers of Ethics (205)
16 Concepts of Ethnomedicine (227)
Dan Choffnes
17 Blossoming Sex: Floral Transpositions in the Works of Natalia LL and Zofia Kulik (263)
Monika Bakke
18 Botanical Decolonization: in Defense of Cultivars (277)
Giovanni Aloi
19 Invasive Species, Indigenous Stewards, and Vulnerability Discourse (291)
Nicholas J. Reo, Kyle Whyte, Darren Ranco, Jodi Brandt, Emily Blackmer, and Braden Elliott
20 Interview with Uriel Orlow (311)
21 Interview with D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem (319)
IV Subjectivities
22 Estado Vegetal (329)
Manuela Infante and Marcela Salinas
23 Dissemination, Rhizomes, Efflorescene: The Legacy of the Vegetative Soul in Twentieth-Century Thought (335)
Elaine Miller
24 The Colour Green (359)
Prudence Gibson
25 Preventing Plant Blindness (377)
James H. Wandersee and Elisabeth E. Schussler
26 Trees in Shallow Time (385)
Mark Payne
27 Interview with Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro (393)
28 Interview with Maria Thereza Alves (399)
V Intelligences
29 The Living Thought (407)
Eduardo Kohn
30 Intelligence and Consciousness (439)
Anthony Trewavas
31 The 1970s Plant Craze (461)
Teresa Castro
32 Floral Sensations: Plant Biopolotics (479)
Catriona A. H. Sandilands
33 To Hear Plants Speak (495)
Michael Marder
34 The Time Travelers: Im/Possibilities of Return (517)
Elaine Gan
35 Interview with Samaneh Moafi (525)
36 Interview with Diana Scherer (533)
VI Autobiographies
37 A...Mazing Pea (541)
Monica Gagliano
38 Conversation: The Intelligence of Plants (555)
Robin Wall Kimmerer and Krista Tippett
39 Ruderal Societies (569)
Lois Weinberger
40 Seeking Refuge in the Vegetal World (573)
Luce Irigary and Michael Marder
41 The Green Belt Movement (583)
Wangari Maathai
42 Sorely Visible: Plants, Roots, and National Identity
Giavanni Aloi
43 Interview with Linda Tegg and Baracco + Wright (607)
44 Interview with Anicka Yi (615)
Contributors (621)