How to Be Animal

ISBN-13: 9781786895738 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 256 str.

Challenger Melanie Challenger

Opis

Combining nature writing, history and moral philosophy, this is a wide-ranging and radical new take on the human story and what it means for us today

Recenzje

The best critique of the myth of human exceptionalism I have read. Clearly and beautifully written, compellingly argued and packed with powerful and moving stories, it shows how the fact that we humans are animals has been denied and repressed, with profoundly damaging consequences for the way we live and for the planet. But this brilliant book is not only a critique. By showing that being human means being animal, it reveals how much joy in life we can gain if we recognise and accept the truth about ourselves. Read and digest this book, and you will not only be wiser but also happier JOHN GRAY author of Feline Philosophy

O autorze

Challenger, Melanie

Melanie Challenger works as a researcher on the history of humanity and the natural world, and environmental philosophy. She is the author of On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature. She received a Darwin Now Award for her research in the Canadian Arctic, and the Arts Council International Fellowship with the British Antarctic Survey for her work on the history of whaling.

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