Temps et vivant : esquisse de la temporalité du vivant végétal à partir de l'ontologie de la vie chez Hans Jonas

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Supervisors

Frogneux, Nathalie

Faculty

Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres

Degree label

Master [120] en philosophie, à finalité approfondie

Abstract

enThe concept of biomass is philosophically problematic insofar as it does not distinguish the living from the “lifeless”; only so-called “organic” matter enters the biomass register, which has nevertheless been stripped of all its life traits. This research intends to restore the distinction between the living and the inert by resituating the biomass in its temporality, which is that of the living. From a perspective inspired by Hans Jonas, such temporality is characterized as a horizon of transcendence, as a future opened up by the organism preoccupied with its maintenance in being, faced with the ever-imminent possibility of death. At the same time, this requires rethinking the phenomenon of time, no longer as external objective time from any point of view, but as the temporality of a point of life, in its openness to the world. The temporality of plant life, in its specificity, makes it possible to reveal the tangle of temporalities within which living things are always already caught. Plant life thus offers a remedy for dualistic and reductionist ontologies in their common rejection of the world.