'Human Specialness': The Historical Dimension & the Historicisation of Humanity

ISBN-13: 9781907962677 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 62 str.

Peter Xavier Price

Opis

Peter Xavier Price, who is based at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History, responds to Neil Paul Cummins 2010 book, Is the Human Species Special?: Why human-induced global warming could be in the interests of life. He seeks to explore and challenge many of the epistemological suppositions undergirding the central ideas of Is the Human Species Special?. Why, the author speculates, does the application of history play such a minor role in considerations of the supposed uniqueness of humanity? Likewise, can mankinds sense of its own historical nature pave the way towards a better informed and responsible future? Questions such as these, amongst many others, form the basis for this short book, in which humanitys eternal struggle to find inherent meaning in its surrounding world - as well as humanitys place within it - is reconsidered.