Marjolein Oele is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. She is the coeditor (with Gerard Kuperus) of Ontologies of Nature: Continental Perspectives and Environmental Reorientations.

"Marjolein Oele's E-Co-Affectivity is not just a book for our time; it is a book that points the way to new and better times as realized in oncoming places that are informed by an intrepid ecological vision that is at once rigorously argued and eloquently stated." — Research in Phenomenology"This is a very welcome contribution to environmental philosophy. The strikingly original thesis is evident in the book's title: what we call 'ecology' is a co-affectivity—the mutuality of affecting and being affected on the part of species, biological kingdoms, ecosystems, etc. Here, Marjolein Oele melds biology and ontology in new and creative ways, enriching both fields. Her book performs the very theme it explores: it stages a co-affective relation between philosophy and the life sciences." — Michael Marder, author of Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Plants and Affectivity: The Middle-Voiced Lives of Plants2. Animals and Affectivity: Aisthēsis, Touch, Trauma, and Bird Feathers3. Generative Human Affectivity: The Placenta as Place-and-Time-Making In-Between4. Skin and Human Sapient Affectivity: Skin, Webbed Existence, Temporal Depth, and Trust5. E-Co-Affectivity beyond the Anthropocene: On Soil and Soil PoresNotesWorks CitedIndex

Marjolein Oele is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. She is the coeditor (with Gerard Kuperus) of Ontologies of Nature: Continental Perspectives and Environmental Reorientations.

"Marjolein Oele's E-Co-Affectivity is not just a book for our time; it is a book that points the way to new and better times as realized in oncoming places that are informed by an intrepid ecological vision that is at once rigorously argued and eloquently stated." — Research in Phenomenology"This is a very welcome contribution to environmental philosophy. The strikingly original thesis is evident in the book's title: what we call 'ecology' is a co-affectivity—the mutuality of affecting and being affected on the part of species, biological kingdoms, ecosystems, etc. Here, Marjolein Oele melds biology and ontology in new and creative ways, enriching both fields. Her book performs the very theme it explores: it stages a co-affective relation between philosophy and the life sciences." — Michael Marder, author of Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Plants and Affectivity: The Middle-Voiced Lives of Plants2. Animals and Affectivity: Aisthēsis, Touch, Trauma, and Bird Feathers3. Generative Human Affectivity: The Placenta as Place-and-Time-Making In-Between4. Skin and Human Sapient Affectivity: Skin, Webbed Existence, Temporal Depth, and Trust5. E-Co-Affectivity beyond the Anthropocene: On Soil and Soil PoresNotesWorks CitedIndex

Marjolein Oele is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. She is the coeditor (with Gerard Kuperus) of Ontologies of Nature: Continental Perspectives and Environmental Reorientations.

"Marjolein Oele's E-Co-Affectivity is not just a book for our time; it is a book that points the way to new and better times as realized in oncoming places that are informed by an intrepid ecological vision that is at once rigorously argued and eloquently stated." — Research in Phenomenology"This is a very welcome contribution to environmental philosophy. The strikingly original thesis is evident in the book's title: what we call 'ecology' is a co-affectivity—the mutuality of affecting and being affected on the part of species, biological kingdoms, ecosystems, etc. Here, Marjolein Oele melds biology and ontology in new and creative ways, enriching both fields. Her book performs the very theme it explores: it stages a co-affective relation between philosophy and the life sciences." — Michael Marder, author of Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Plants and Affectivity: The Middle-Voiced Lives of Plants2. Animals and Affectivity: Aisthēsis, Touch, Trauma, and Bird Feathers3. Generative Human Affectivity: The Placenta as Place-and-Time-Making In-Between4. Skin and Human Sapient Affectivity: Skin, Webbed Existence, Temporal Depth, and Trust5. E-Co-Affectivity beyond the Anthropocene: On Soil and Soil PoresNotesWorks CitedIndex