Being Human Today

ʻBeing Human Today is a highly innovative exploration of the common human experience of becoming an I, joining the world, and recognizing the I of others – not only once, but in a constantly evolving process. The reader is guided through different rooms, as in an art exhibition, featuring authors, and artists, from different disciplines giving words to each other successively, as in a conversation. In this way, readers from any discipline are guaranteed to see what it is to be human today in a new perspective.ʼ

-- Dag Gjerløw Aasland, University of Agder, Norway

‘Being Human Today provides readers with a different and innovative way of navigating concepts and experiences of the self through the variant approaches the volume takes to self as a concept and a sense of being. As a ‘book that was never-meant-to-be’, it invites us to engage with those existentialist dilemmas which neither offer a final sense of resolution nor does it furnish us with quick answers. This open-endedness while still clearly being set within identifiable parameters for those interested in the fields discussed is the book’s strength. The editors have collated a volume with a permanent sense of arrival, which effectively brings together several points over a horizon that keeps expanding. More than authors writing and reader reading, Being Human Today is a space for participants who are willing to take the role of actors-artists coinhabiting a curated space.’

-- John Baldacchino, University of Wisconsin-Madison,