Being salmon, being human
encountering the wild in us and us in the wild
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Word Count
86,000 words, Guess
Page Count
344 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebeingsalmonbeing0000muel
- ISBN-101603587454
- ISBN-139781603587457
- Library of Congress Control Number2017023754
- OCLC Control Number985073408
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781603587457
- Open LibraryOL26939286M
Classifications
- DDC128
- LCCBD460.O74 M84 2017
- LCCBD460.O74M84 2017
Description
"In the pages of Being Salmon, Being Human, Martin Lee Mueller confronts Western culture's tragic alienation from nature by focusing on the relationship between people and salmon--weaving together key narratives about the Norwegian salmon industry as well as wild salmon in indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest. Mueller uses this lens to articulate a critique of human exceptionalism, challenging the four-century-old notion that other animals are nothing but complicated machines without rich inner lives and that Earth is a passive backdrop to human experience. Being fully human, he argues, means experiencing the intersection of our horizon of understanding with that of other animals. Salmon are the test case for this. Mueller experiments, in evocative narrative passages, with imagining the world as a salmon might see it and considering how this enriches our understanding of humanity in the process. Being Salmon, Being Human rewards readers with insightful interpretations of major philosophers--Descartes, Heidegger, Abram, and many more--and reflections on the human-Earth relationship, heralding a new "Copernican revolution" in the fields of biology, ecology, and philosophy"--Jacket flap.
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