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Home / Preorder / How to Be Animal: A New History of What it Means to Be Human

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

Melanie Challenger

Format: Hardback

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd

Due to be published: 4th Feb '21

Pre-order - This Hardback title is not yet published, due 4th Feb '21

£18.99

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

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SKU: 9781786895714

Categories: Ethics and moral philosophy, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Popular science, Preorder, Social and cultural anthropology, Social and cultural history
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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 writes a remarkable story of what it means to be human and argues that at the heart of our psychology is a profound struggle with being animal. As well as piecing together the mystery of how this psychology evolved, this book examines its wide-reaching effects on our lives, from our politics to the ways we distance ourselves from other species. We travel from the origins of Homo sapiens through the agrarian and industrial revolutions, the age of the internet, and on to futures of AI and human-machine interface. We examine how technology influences our sense of our own animal nature and our relationship with the other species with whom we share this fragile planet.Drawing on new evidence from a wide 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.

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Weight 0.48 kg
Dimensions 27 × 162 × 240 mm
Page Count 272

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