Description
Do elephants fear death? Do trees feel pain? Why do we love to tell stories about the end of the world? Why is our language insufficient to describe the challenges of today? And what role do scientists play in all this? Such questions were posed by writer and journalist Štěpán Kučera in interviews published since 2017 in Salon Práva. Primatologist Jane Goodall, cyberneticist and philosopher Ivan M. Havel, theologian Tomáš Halík, theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli, philosopher and writer Michal Ajvaz, sociologist Daniel Prokop, zoologist and writer Miloslav Nevrlý, philosopher Tereza Matějčková, and many other personalities from Czech and global science reflect on the connections of the Anthropocene, the "age of man." The collected publication of these texts creates a novel-like polyphony that explores the ambiguity of the human condition and humanity's place in the world of both living and inanimate nature from various authorial perspectives.
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Author: Kučera Štěpán
Publication date: April 30, 2024
Manufacturer: MARTIN REINER, Nakladatelství Druhé město
Genres: Books, Technique, Specialized and technical literature
Type: Books - paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN/EAN: 9788072279029