📗 Libro en inglés BEING SALMON, BEING HUMAN

Nautilus Award Silver Medal Winner Ecology & Environment In search of a new story for our place on earthBeing Salmon Being Human examines 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 comprehensive critique of human exceptionalism directly challenging the four hundred year 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 is both a philosophical and a narrative work rewarding readers with insightful interpretations of major philosophers Descartes Heidegger Abram and many more and reflections on the human Earth relationship It stands alongside Abram s Spell of the