Jean-Marc Drouin is a retired professor of philosophy and the history of science at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and a member of the Centre Alexandre Koyré. His works include L’Écologie et son histoire (1993) and L’Herbier des philosophes (2008).Anne Trager is a translator and editor based in France. She is the founder of Le French Book, an independent press publishing English translations of French fiction and providing translation and cross-cultural services.

A Philosophy of the Insect offers a meditation on insects' status in nature. With a writing style rich with mythological, literary, and entomological references, the author demonstrates how these tiny beings, champions of animal diversity and prosperity, play a large role in the natural balance.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Tiny Giants2. An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles3. An Entomologist’s Point of View4. Insect Politics5. Individual Instinct and Collective Intelligence6. Battles and Alliances7. Model Insects8. Worlds and EnvironmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Jean-Marc Drouin is a retired professor of philosophy and the history of science at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and a member of the Centre Alexandre Koyré. His works include L’Écologie et son histoire (1993) and L’Herbier des philosophes (2008).Anne Trager is a translator and editor based in France. She is the founder of Le French Book, an independent press publishing English translations of French fiction and providing translation and cross-cultural services.

A Philosophy of the Insect offers a meditation on insects' status in nature. With a writing style rich with mythological, literary, and entomological references, the author demonstrates how these tiny beings, champions of animal diversity and prosperity, play a large role in the natural balance.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Tiny Giants2. An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles3. An Entomologist’s Point of View4. Insect Politics5. Individual Instinct and Collective Intelligence6. Battles and Alliances7. Model Insects8. Worlds and EnvironmentsNotesBibliographyIndex