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Author Morton, Timothy, 1968- author

Title Humankind : solidarity with nonhuman people / Timothy Morton
Published London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2017

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Description x, 205 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Things in common: an introduction -- Life -- Specters -- Subscendence -- Species -- Kindness
Summary What is it that makes humans, human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and non-life, between organic and inorganic, this ancient question is more timely than ever. Acclaimed Object-Oriented philosopher Timothy Morton invites us to consider this philosophical issue as eminently political. It is in our relationship with non-humans, that we decided the fate of our humanity. Becoming human, claims Morton, actually means creating a network of kindness and solidarity with non-human beings, in the name of a broader understanding of reality that both includes and overcomes the notion of species. Negotiating the politics of humanity is the first and crucial step to reclaim the upper scales of ecological coexistence, not to let Monsanto and cryogenically suspended billionaires to define them and own them
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Philosophical anthropology.
Human beings.
Animals (Philosophy)
Human-animal relationships.
LC no. 2017011128
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