Fight Like An Animal

Name: Fight Like An Animal
Price: 38.08 AUD
Availability: OutOfStock
ISBN: 9798995438700

Revolutionary Biology in Defense of Life

Arnold Schroder

$44.95 $38.08

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We will update you on expected arrival time to us. If this delay is too long, please let us know within 2 business days and we can give you options regarding cancelling or adjusting your order. More details on cancelling your order can be found in our Terms of Trade.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

Severed Branches Press
01 May 2026

Social issues & processes; Anarchism; Political activism; Impact of science & technology on society

Summary
Details

The stories we tell matter, especially when we aren't aware we're telling them, or how they shape our behavior. In Fight Like An Animal: Revolutionary Biology in Defense of Life,

Arnold Schroder argues that all modern conceptions of politics, from anarchism to fascism, exhibit a shared confusion. All are based on some form of the nature-nurture binary: the idea that human behavior is either biologically or socially-determined, and that the more it is biological, the less it is social. This idea is not simply wrong, but logically incoherent. We can only adapt to so many different kinds of society through a highly-structured biology, which we should seek to understand if we wish to find new ways of living.

Based on decades of immersion in the environmental movement, Fight Like An Animal describes how largely-forgotten debates about human nature still have concrete impacts on political projects today. When we escape the confusion they cause, we can direct our attention to something that should be obvious: individual differences in political personality. Political personality is the core orientation to the world from which specific political behaviors and perceptions emerge. We must ask how different kinds of people shape societies in different ways, and how people are shaped, in turn, by the societies they create. Neither of these questions make sense in isolation: they are endlessly entangled.

Using this integrative framework, Schroder offers simple, readily-accessible tools for conceiving of social change processes and crafting strategic initiatives, whether for a book club or a global revolution. Applying insights gained everywhere from oil refinery blockades to baboon stress hormone profiles, Fight Like An Animal is an earnest argument that, no matter how mired in darkness and confusion, the world can make sense. Spanning genres from political philosophy to social sciences to environmentalism, this text has something for everyone while at the same time challenging us to stretch our ways of knowing in how we do the hard work of integrating theory and action in the real world.

By: Arnold Schroder
Imprint: Severed Branches Press
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 472g
ISBN: 9798995438700
Pages: 354
Publication Date: 01 May 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active