FITOCENTRISMO E BIOINTERAZIONE: NUOVE PROSPETTIVE SULLA RELAZIONE TRA L'ESSERE UMANO E LA NATURA

In recent years, philosophy has been experiencing a renewed interest in plant organisms, dedicating a growing space for reflection on them. In this paper, we intend to address plant philosophy by combining two theoretical perspectives: critical plant studies and critical intercultural philosophy. Indeed, we believe that plants, which have always been relegated to the margins of Western thought, can be a starting point for highlighting philosophical elaborations that deviate from and oppose Eurocentric hegemonic thought. Consequently, in this paper, we will compare some theories of the philosopher Michael Marder and the philosopher and quilombola activist Antônio Bispo dos Santos, showing how plants allow a confluence of thought towards a philosophy focused on a reunion of humans and nature, enhancing a non-anthropocentric ecosystem perspective. Phytocentrism and biointegration, key concepts of this work that come from two distant perspectives, resonate with each other and can overturn the balance of power, leading the human being to search for the plant within themself and their belonging to the biosphere and emancipating organisms more-than-human from a condition of oppression and domination to which they are relegated.