Being a Human - Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness (Paperback, Main)

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.

General

Imprint:	Profile Books Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2022
First published:	2021
Authors:	Charles Foster
Dimensions:	198 x 128 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	400
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-1-78816-718-5
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Popular science Books > Health, Home & Family > Self-help & practical interests > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
LSN:	1-78816-718-X
Barcode:	9781788167185

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