How to Be Animal - What it Means to Be Human

Humans are the most inquisitive, emotional, imaginative, aggressive and baffling animals on the planet. But how well do we really know ourselves?

How to Be Animal offers a radical take on what it means to be human and argues that at the heart of our psychology is a profound struggle with being animal. Tracing the history of this thinking through to its far-reaching effects on our lives, and drawing on a range of disciplines, Challenger proposes that being an animal is a process, beautiful and unpredictable, and that we have a chance to tell ourselves a new story; to realise that if we matter, so does everything else.

Info autore

Melanie Challenger writes, researches and broadcasts on the history of ideas, the history and philosophy of science and the relationship between humans and the living world. She is the author of How to Be Animal: What it Means to Be Human, among other works, and host of the podcast The Psychosphere. She is also an award-winning poet and librettist for opera and oratorios, and a National Geographic Explorer. Melanie is internationally active in bioethics and Vice President of the RSPCA.

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Riassunto

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

Testo aggiuntivo

Blending personal experience with scientific observation, Challenger has a talent for making the known seem unexpected or unsettling

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Melanie Challenger, Challenger Melanie
• Editore: Canongate Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 03.02.2022
• EAN: 9781786895752
• ISBN: 978-1-78689-575-2
• Pagine: 260
• Dimensioni: 131 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; 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