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PhilosophyWritten by Timothy Morton
Read by Liam Gerrard
Format: MP3
Unabridged
Humankind
Solidarity with Nonhuman People
By: Timothy Morton
Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
Release date: 03-27-18
Language: English
Publisher’s Summary
A radical call for solidarity between humans and nonhumans
What is it that makes humans human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and nonlife, 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.
©2017 Timothy Morton (P)2018 Tantor