Hunger (Paperback)

Understanding hunger is the key to understanding ourselves. While our hungers seem the most obvious things about us, they are also deeply mysterious, arising out of, and casting light on, the unique character of human consciousness. In humans, physiological need is transformed into a multitude of demands that are remote from organic necessity. Even first-level biological hunger is experienced differently in humans, and little in human feeding behaviour has any parallel in the animal kingdom. Raymond Tallis takes us through the different levels of our hunger, showing that our primary appetites give rise to a myriad of pleasures and tastes that are elaborated in second-level hedonistic hungers, creating new values. The evolution of appetite into desire opens the way to social hungers such as the hunger for acknowledgement. Awareness of death awakens a further level of hunger for something that lies beyond the pell-mell of successive experiences leading towards extinction. The art of living is the art of managing our hungers.

General

Imprint:	Acumen Publishing Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Art of Living
Release date:	August 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Raymond Tallis
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-1-84465-155-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Self-help & practical interests > Popular psychology > General Books > Philosophy > General Promotions
LSN:	1-84465-155-X
Barcode:	9781844651559

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