Humankind Solidarity with nonhuman people
Book - 2017
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.
- Subjects
- Published
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London ; Brooklyn, NY :
Verso
2017.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- x, 205 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781786631329
9781786632814
- Acknowledgments
- Things in Common: An Introduction
- 1. Life
- 2. Specters
- 3. Subscendence
- 4. Species
- 5. Kindness
- Notes
- Index