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Fabrication: Of Intelligence and Nature. A Philosophical Fugue (New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming in 2028)

 

Vegetality: Learning from Seeds (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming in 2027)

 

Of Joints and Other Articulations: The Futures of Arthrosophy (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2026)

"The Arthritic Society" in NWCC

"Arthrosophy" in Incidental Noyes

(with Anais Tondeur), Fiori di fuoco: Tracci e corrispondenze dalla Terra dei Fuochi (Milano: Mimesis, 2026) 

*French edition: Fleurs de feu: Traces et correspondances de la Terre des Feux (Paris: Éditions Mimésis, 2025)

*English edition: Flowers of Fire (Simon & Schuster, L'Artiere, 2025)

Reviewed in Il Manifesto

Reviewed in Il Mattino

Reviewed in La Repubblica

Reviewed in Vìride

Reviewed in 5, rue du

Reviewed in Natural Style

Reviewed in Art Press

Reviewed in Singulars

Reviewed in Cultweek

Metamorphoses Reimagined (New York: Columbia University Press, 2025)

Reviewed in Christian Century

Eco-Freud from A to Z (London & New York: Bloomsbury, 2025)

En qué piensan las plantas? (Madrid: Babidi-bu, 2025) [for children ages 6+]

Pyropolitics: Fire and the Political (Hannover: Ibidem Verlag, 2025)

Pyropolitics in the World Ablaze, revised and updated second edition (London, UK & Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020 [2015])

*Ukrainian translation: Piropolitika (L'viv: Kontur, 2026)

*Spanish translation: Piropolítica en un mundo en llamas (Barcelona: NED Ediciones, 2023)

*Norwegian translation: Pyropolitikk i en verden som brenner (Oslo: Existenz Forlag, 2023)

Reviewed in Los Angeles Review of Books

Reviewed in Global Affairs

Reviewed in ALA Choice Magazine

(with Edward S. Casey), Plants in Place: A Phenomenology of the Vegetal (New York: Columbia University Press, 2024)

Recommended by Yale Climate Connections (12 books honoring Earth Day)

Reviewed in The Year's Work in Critical & Cultural Theory

Time Is a Plant (Leiden, NL: Brill, 2023)

The Phoenix Complex: A Philosophy of Nature (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2023)

-the entire book available with Open Access

Reviewed in Hong Kong Review of Books

Reviewed in H-Environment

Reviewed in U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library

El conjunto del crecimiento (Mexico City: Centro de Cultura Digital, 2023)

-the entire book available in PDF

Philosophy for Passengers, with art by Tomas Saraceno (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022)

*Spanish translation: Filosofía del pasajero (Barcelona: NED Ediciones, 2022)

*Italian translation: Filosofia per passeggeri (Rome: Touring Club Italiano, 2025)

-Best book for travelers, National Geographic, 2022 

-Book of the week, Aristegui Noticias, 2024

-Short film Passengers (2026) based on the book

Reviewed in Publishers Weekly

Reviewed in National Geographic

Reviewed in The Prisma

Reviewed in The Theosophical Society

Reviewed in Viaje con escalas

Reviewed in Milenio

Reviewed in AGI

Interview for The Irish Times

Senses of Upheaval: Philosophical Snapshots of a Decade (New York & London: Anthem Press, 2021)

Green Mass: The Ecological Theology of St. Hildegard of Bingen, with music by Peter Schuback (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021)

Reviewed in Spirituality & Practice

Reviewed in The German Quarterly

Reviewed in Worldviews

Reviewed in Religious

Reviewed in The Way (UK)

Hegel's Energy: A Reading of The Phenomenology of Spirit (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2021)

Reviewed in State of Affairs

Dump Philosophy: A Phenomenology of Devastation (New York & London: Bloomsbury, 2020)

*Portuguese translation: Filosofia no lixo (Lisbon: VS Editor, 2026)

*Spanish translation: El vertedero filosófico (Barcelona: NED Ediciones, 2022)

Interview for Arterritory

Reviewed in InfoMag

Reviewed in Milenio

Reviewed in Biosemiotics

Reviewed in SOL

Political Categories: Thinking beyond Concepts (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019)

Reviewed in Phenomenological Reviews

Reviewed in NDPR

Reviewed in Theoria

Reviewed in The Review of Metaphysics

Reviewed in ALA Magazine (Highly Recommended)

Winner of Choice "Outstanding Title of the Year, 2020"

Heidegger: Phenomenology, Ecology, Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018)

Reviewed in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Reviewed in Phenomenological Reviews

Reviewed in Environmental Philosophy

Energy Dreams: Of Actuality (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017)

Reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement

Reviewed in Stasis

Reviewed in The Prisma

Grafts: Writings on Plants (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2016)

 *Spanish translation: Injertos, escritos sobre las plantas (Bilbao: Ediciones Nefoe, 2019)

Reviewed in Agriculture & Human Values

Reviewed in Environmental Philosophy

Reviewed in ALA Choice Magazine

(with Luce Irigaray), Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016)

*Mandarin Chinese translation forthcoming in 2026

*German translation: Durch das Pflanzliche Sein (Leipzig: Merve Verlag, 2024)

*Korean translation: 식물의 사유 (Aleph Publishing, 2020)

Reviewed in Library Journal

Reviewed in Hypatia

Reviewed in Dialogue

Reviewed in Green Letters

Reviewed in philoSOPHIA

Reviewed in International Journal of Public Theology

Reviewed in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Reviewed in Environmental Values

Reviewed in Inference: International Review of Science

Reviewed in postmedieval

Reviewed in Religious Theory

Winner of the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA, London) Book of the Year, 2016

The Chernobyl Herbarium: Fragments of an Exploded Consciousness, with artworks by Anaïs Tondeur (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016); second expanded edition, 2026

Entire book in PDF

*Korean translation:  체르노빌의 식물 표본 (Busan: Textpress, 2026)

*Spanish translation: Chernobil Herbarium: Fragmentos de una Conciencia Explotada (Barcelona: NED Ediciones, 2021)

*Italian translation: Chernobyl Herbarium (Milano: Mimesis Edizioni, 2021); second expanded edition, 2026

*French translation: Tchernobyl Herbarium: Fragment d'une conscience en éclat (Paris: Editions Mimesis, 2021)

*Partial Ukrainian translation in Kontur

*Partial Danish translation in Baggrund

Reviewed in The Planthunter

Reviewed in Lancet Oncology

Reviewed in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Reviewed in (Des)troços

Reviewed in La Repubblica

Reviewed in Il fatto quotidiano

Reviewed in Il Sole 24 Ore

Reviewed in eHabitat

Reviewed in Singola

Reviewed in Artribune

Reviewed in Il Foglio

Reviewed in Avvenire

Reviewed in Antinomie

Reviewed in Almanacco della scienza

Reviewed in Ilmiolibro

Reviewed in Domani

Article in Linkiesta.it

Article in Italy24 News

Article in Il Mattino

Article in Corriere della Sera

Interview for Exibart

Chernobyl Herbarium on RAI Radio

Dust (London & New York: Bloomsbury, 2016)

*Korean translation forthcoming in 2026

*Turkish translation: Toz (Istanbul: Ithaki, 2019) 

Reviewed in The Bookbag

Reviewed in Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies

NPR's pick for one of "The Best Books of 2016"

My Ted-Ed Original Lesson "What Is Dust Made of?" 

The Philosopher's Plant: An Intellectual Herbarium, with drawings by Mathilde Roussel (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014)

*Italian translation: La pianta filosofale (Milano: Mimesis Edizioni, 2025)

*Russian translation: Rasteniya filosofov (Moscow: Ad Marginem, 2025)

*French translation: La plante du philosophe: Un herbier intellectuel (Paris: Éditions Mimésis, 2020)

Reviewed in Publisher's Weekly

Starred review in Library Journal

Reviewed in Environmental Philosophy

Reviewed in Riffle Books

Reviewed in The Marginalian

Reviewed in Vassar College Journal of Philosophy

Reviewed in ALA Choice Magazine

"The Best Books on Plants and Philosophy"

Phenomena--Critique--Logos: The Project of Critical Phenomenology (London, UK & Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014)

Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013)

 

*Italian translation forthcoming in 2026

*Polish translation: Myślenie roślin. Filozofia wegetacji (Gdansk: słowo/obraz terytoria, 2024)

*Estonian translation: Taimmõtlemine. Vegetaalse elu filosoofia (Tallinn: Tallinn University Press, 2024)

*Russian translation: Rastitel'noe myshlenie: filosofia vegetativnoy zhizni (Moscow: Ad marginem, 2024)

*French translation: La pensée végétale (Paris: Les Presses du réel, 2021)

-Reviewed in Philosophie Magazin

-Reviewed in Plasticités--Sciences--Arts

Reviewed in Publisher's Weekly

Reviewed in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Reviewed in Environmental Values

Reviewed in Environmental Humanities

Reviewed in The Quarterly Review of Biology

Reviewed in LA Review of Books

Reviewed in STIR

Reviewed in Midwest Book Reviews

Reviewed in Gorky Media

Reviewed in Czas Kultury

Reviewed in Art Papier

Interview with Powell's Books 

Interview with New Books in Philosophy

Interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) 

Recommendation in The Bangalore Review

Article in Modern Farmer

Article in Magazine Spirale

Groundless Existence: The Political Ontology of Carl Schmitt (New York & London: Bloomsbury/Continuum, 2010)

Reviewed in International Journal of Philosophical Studies

Reviewed in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Reviewed in Revista de Ciencias Sociales

The Event of the Thing: Derrida’s Post-Deconstructive Realism (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009)

Reviewed in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Reviewed in Parrhesia

Reviewed in Telos v. 150

Reviewed in El Commercio, "Y ahora la 'post-deconstrucción'"

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