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Amanda Rees, Charlotte Sleigh - Human, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Human

Av Amanda Rees, Charlotte Sleigh

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What does it mean to be human? And what, if anything, does it have to do with being a member of the animal species Homo sapiens? This dazzling book gets to the very heart of our (rather unscientific) motivations and prejudices about humanity, showing how, by understanding them, we can go some way to resolving the world’s biggest problems. From beasts to aliens, widespread but often problematic links with six other beings are explored. Deep philosophical questions are tackled, including humanity’s common purpose, life’s meaning and what it means to be accepted as part of a community. Global in its outlook and illustrated by stunning pictures, Human is a powerful, funny and iconoclastic antidote to post-humanism.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-07-13
  • Mått: 135 x 190 x 16 mm
  • Vikt: 378 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Animal
  • Antal sidor: 216
  • Förlag: Reaktion Books
  • ISBN: 9781789142143
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Charlotte Sleigh (Author) Charlotte Sleigh is Professor of Science Humanities at the University of Kent. She has published several books on the history, culture and representation of animals including Ant (2003) and Frog (2012) for Reaktion, as well as The Paper Zoo (2016).Amanda Rees (Author) Amanda Rees is Reader in Sociology at the University of York. She is author of The Infanticide Controversy: Primatology and the Art of Field Science (2009) and editor of Presenting Futures Past: Science Fiction and the History of Science (2019).

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One of the best . . . Rees and Sleigh’s Human is the rare Animal volume that refers to the series in which it appears. The authors imagine an encounter between a human and an extraterrestrial. "Having read the other books in Reaktion’s Animal series," they write, we would not “have an answer to the question of how we differ from it." One reason is that no matter how good we are at defining other species, humans have a very hard time defining what it means to be human. Rees and Sleigh point out that whenever we try to approach a definition of who we are as a species, "the concept of humanity evaporates." It’s a category "that has been defined by many things, almost all of them what it is not." . . . In Human, they don’t try to define or even portray Homo sapiens. Instead, they explore the not-ness we have used to characterize ourselves.

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