Charles Foster

Being A Human - Adventures In 40,000 Years Of Consciousness (Bok)

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 Lives What 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.

Författare:	Charles Foster
Titel:	Being A Human - Adventures In 40,000 Years Of Consciousness
Typ:	Bok
Kategori:	Böcker/Familj & Hälsa/Hälsa, Skönhet & Sex
Releasedatum:	2022-06-02
Artikelnummer:	767586
Lagerstatus:	Beställningsvara Leveranstid: från 7 vardagar
EAN:	9781788167185
ISBN:	1788167185
Språk:	Engelska
Bandtyp:	Pocket
Mått(BxHxD):	129x198x26 mm
Omfång:	400 sidor
Vikt:	310 gram
Titel:	Being A Human - Adventures In 40,000 Years Of Consciousness
Förlag:	Hachette UK Distribution