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Being a Human

By Charles Foster

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Being a Human

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A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 'A thrilling deep-dive through our evolutionary past, and a witty and learned commentary on why we are the way we are - and what wisdom we've lost along the way' Cal Flynn, author of Islands of Abandonment 'A wild ride: brave, outrageous, hilarious, helpful and urgent ... essential reading' Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled Lives What kind of creature is a human? If we don't know what we are, how can we know how to act? Charles Foster sets out to understand what a human is, inhabiting the sensory worlds of humans at three pivotal moments in our history. Foster begins his quest with his son in a Derbyshire wood, trying to find a way of experiencing the world that recognises the deep expanse of time when we understood ourselves as hunter-gatherers, and when modern consciousness was first ignited. From there he travels to the Neolithic, a way of being defined by fences, farms, sky gods and slaughterhouses, and finally to the Enlightenment, when we decided that the universe was a machine and we were soulless cogs within it.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
400
Release Date:
2022-06-02
Publication Date:
2022-06-02
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
178816718X
ISBN13:
9781788167185
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
322 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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