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Title: Being a Human
Condition: New
Subtitle: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness
ISBN-10: 178816718X
EAN: 9781788167185
ISBN: 9781788167185
Edition: Main
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 02/06/2022
Description: 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 LivesWhat 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 128mm
Item Width: 28mm
Item Weight: 320g
Author: Charles Foster
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences, Personal Development, Science Nature & Math
Release Year: 2022

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