Being a Human Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness

What kind of creature is a human? If we don't know what we are, how can we know how to act? In 'Being a Human' Charles Foster sets out to understand what a human is, inhabiting the sensory worlds of humans at three pivotal moments in our history.'A wonderful, wild, dazzling book. You will feel more human for having read it' Tom Whyman, Literary Review 'Foster's daringly imaginative exploration of alternative models of selfhood is an original and beneficial way of grappling with history ... precisely what we need to remind us that there are many alternatives to the "I, me, mine" mindset' Anna Katharina Schaffner, TLS 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.

ISBN:	9781788167185
Publisher:	Profile
Imprint:	Profile Books
Published date:	02 Jun 2022
DEWEY:	301
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	400
Weight:	310g
Height:	128mm
Width:	199mm
Spine width:	27mm

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