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Humankind

Solidarity with Non-Human People

Timothy Morton

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English
Verso Books
01 October 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. In our relationship with

nonhumans, we decide the fate of our humanity. Becoming human, claims

Morton, actually means creating a network of kindness and solidarity

with nonhuman 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 crucial step in reclaiming the upper

scales of ecological coexistence and resisting corporations like

Monsanto and the technophilic billionaires who would rob us of our

kinship with people beyond our species.
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Imprint:   Verso Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 210mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   392g
ISBN:   9781786631329
ISBN 10:   1786631326
Pages:   225
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. He is the author of Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence, Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism, Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World, The Ecological Thought and Ecology without Nature.

Reviews for Humankind: Solidarity with Non-Human People

I have been reading Timothy Morton's books for a while and I like them a lot. - Bjork By suggesting imaginative ways to resolve other crises, could humanities scholars stave off the crisis engulfing their own subjects? Morton proposes a future in which the venerable ideas of nature and environment are so much detritus, useless for addressing a looming ecological catastrophe. His book exemplifies the serious humanities scholarship he makes a plea for. My head's still spinning. -Noel Castree, Times Higher Education (Praise for The Ecological Thought) Timothy Morton brings to bear his deep knowledge of a wide array of subjects to propose a new way of looking at our situation, which might allow us to take action toward the future health of the biosphere. Crucially, the relations between Buddhism and science, nature and culture, are examined in the fusion of a single vision. The result is a great work of cognitive mapping, both exciting and useful. (Praise for Hyperobjects) - Kim Stanley Robinson, author Aurora and the Mars trilogy


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