Melanie Challenger

How to Be Animal

What it Means to Be Human

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 127mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 190g
• ISBN-13: 9781786895752
• ISBN-10: 1786895757
• Artikelnr.: 62561346

Autorenporträt

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. melaniechallenger.com

Rezensionen

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