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Dogs: A philosophical guide to our best friends (Hardcover)
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Dogs: A philosophical guide to our best friends (Hardcover)
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List price R391
Loot Price R236
Discovery Miles 2 360
You Save R155 (40%)
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Man's best friend, domesticated since prehistoric times, a
travelling companion for explorers and artists, thinkers and
walkers, equally happy curled up by the fire and bounding through
the great outdoors--dogs matter to us because we love them. But is
that all there is to the canine's good-natured voracity and
affectionate dependency? Mark Alizart dispenses with the well-worn
cliches concerning dogs and their masters, seeing them not as
submissive pets but rather as unexpected life coaches, ready to
teach us the elusive recipes for contentment and joy. Dogs have
faced their fate in life with a certain detachment that is not easy
to understand. Unlike other animals in a similar situation, they
have not become hardened, nor have they let themselves die a little
inside. On the contrary, they seem to have softened. This book is
devoted to understanding this miracle, the miracle of the joy of
dogs - to understanding it and, if at all possible, to learning how
it's done. Weaving elegantly and eruditely between historical myth
and pop-culture anecdote, between the peculiar views of
philosophers and the even more bizarre findings of science, Alizart
offers us a surprising new portrait of the dog as thinker--a
thinker who may perhaps know the true secret of our humanity.
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