# Being a Human

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- Authors: [Damian Lynch](https://www.bookquiver.com/damian-lynch), [Charles Foster](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-foster)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2021-08-26

## Description

A New Statesman Essential Non-Fiction Book of 2021 What kind of creature is a human? If we don't know what we are, how can we know how to act? In Being a Human Charles Foster sets out to understand what a human is, inhabiting the sensory worlds of humans at three pivotal moments in our history. Foster begins his quest in a wood in Derbyshire with his son, shivering, starving and hunting, trying to find a way of experiencing the world that recognises the deep expanse of time when we understood ourselves as hunter-gatherers, indivisible from the nonhuman world, and when modern consciousness was first ignited. From there he travels to the Neolithic, when we tamed animals, plants and ourselves, to a way of being defined by walls, fences, farms, sky gods and slaughterhouses, and finally to the rarefied world of the Enlightenment, when we decided that the universe was a machine and we were soulless cogs within it.

## Editions

### Being a Human

- Publisher: profile_audio
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-17-8283-933-0
- Published: 2021-08-26
- Language: en_GB