On the Animal Trail

Baptiste Morizot (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

180 Seiten

2021
Polity Press (Verlag)
9781509547180 (ISBN)

Infos

From the forests of Yellowstone to the steppes of the Haut-Var, the French philosopher and environmentalist Baptiste Morizot invites us to develop a different relationship to nature: to become detectives of nature and to follow the footprints of the many wonderful and extraordinary animals with which we share the Earth. By deciphering and interpreting an animal’s footprints and other signs, we gradually discover not only which animal it is, but the animal’s motives too. Through this kind of ‘philosophical tracking’, we come to see the world from the animal’s point of view, to learn to live in this world from the perspective of another species. We begin to let go of our anthropocentric point of view and to recapture the kind of perspective that our ancestors once had when they had no choice but to adopt an animal point of view if they wanted to survive.

In short, by following animal trails, we learn how to pay increased attention to the living world around us and how to cohabit this world with others, thereby enriching our understanding of other species, of the world we share with them and of ourselves.

Autor

Baptiste Morizot teaches philosophy at Aix-Marseille University

Inhalt

Acknowledgements 

Preface by Vinciane Despret      

Preamble: Enforesting oneself   

Chapter One: The signs of the wolf    

Chapter Two: A single bear standing erect
          
Chapter Three: The patience of the panther  

Chapter Four: The discreet art of tracking
   
Chapter Five: Lombric cosmology  

Chapter Six: The origin of investigation

Notes

Credits

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.06.2021
• Übersetzer: Andrew Brown
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 127 x 196 mm
• Gewicht: 249 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• ISBN-13: 9781509547180 / 9781509547180
• Zustand: Neuware