Description
What kind of creature is this man? When we don't know what we are, how can we know how to behave? In the book Being a Human, Charles Foster attempts to understand what it means to be human, inhabiting the sensory worlds of people at three key moments in our history. Foster begins his quest in a forest in Derbyshire, where he and his son shake with cold, hungry and hunting, trying to find a way of experiencing the world that would recognize the deep space of the time when we understood ourselves as hunters and gatherers, inseparable from the non-human world, and when modern consciousness first ignited. From there, he travels to the Neolithic era, when we domesticated animals, plants, and ourselves, to a way of being defined by walls, fences, farms, celestial gods, and slaughterhouses, and finally to the sparse world of the Enlightenment, when we decided that the universe is a machine and we are soulless cogs within it.
Information
Author: Foster Charles
Language: Czech
Publication date: November 18, 2022
Manufacturer: Audiolibrix s.r.o.
Genres: Books, Psychology, Specialized and technical literature, Social sciences, Philosophy
Type: Hardcover book
Pages: 359
ISBN/EAN: 9788088407409