How to Be Animal
What it Means to Be Human
Melanie Challenger
ISBN: | 9781786895752 |
Publisher: | Canongate Books |
Published: | 3 February, 2022 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Allen And Unwin |
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How to Be Animal
What it Means to Be Human
Melanie Challenger
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. 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.
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