How to Be Animal - A New History of What it Means to Be Human

Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext Combining nature writing, history and moral philosophy in a wide-ranging and radical take on what it means to be human. From the author of "On Extinction". Zusammenfassung Combining popular science, history and moral philosophy, this is a wide-ranging and radical new take on the human story and what it means for us today

Product details

• Authors: Melanie Challenger, Challenger Melanie
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.02.2021
• EAN: 9781786895714
• ISBN: 978-1-78689-571-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 240 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, natural history, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Ethics & moral philosophy, Social and cultural history, Ethics and moral philosophy, Social and cultural anthropology, Nature and the natural world: general interest