HUMAN
Book ID/图书代码： 14932920C00018
English Summary/英文概要： What does it mean to be human? And what, if anything, does it have to do with being a member of the animal species Homo sapiens? This dazzling book gets to the very heart of our rather unscientific motivations and prejudices, showing how they are of great use in resolving the world’s biggest problems. From beasts to aliens, widespread but often problematic links with six other beings are explored. Deep philosophical questions are tackled, including humanity’s common purpose, life’s meaning and what it means to be accepted as part of a community. Global in its outlook and illustrated by stunning pictures, Human is a powerful, funny and iconoclastic antidote to post-humanism.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一本探索人類意義、兼具後人文主義與全球視野的人類史大作。
身為人類意味著什麼？本書以兼顧文化史與自然史的角度，追索了關於我們自身「人類」這個種族的歷史，從原始人時代到後人類時代，包含了精美圖像、廣博的資料與深刻的洞見，從動物講到外星人，從神明講到魔鬼，從靈長目人科人族講到亨利‧萊特‧哈葛德的小說《洞窟女王》（She-who-must-be-obeyed），人類總是不斷的在尋求自身存在的意義，以及自身與他者不同之處，而這本知識淵博的書將可以提供你了解自己不一樣的深刻見解。(Zoe)
Awards/获奖情况："From beasts to aliens, this quirkily written and ’iconoclastic’ book explores our links with six other beings, tackling such philosophical questions as humanity’s common purpose, life’s meaning, and what it means to be part of a community."-- "Bookseller"
‘A sparkling and original portrait of our species – tracing our cultural
and natural history from the proto-human to the post-human.
Lavishly illustrated and brilliantly written – this is a wonderful
addition to the Animal series.’ – Thomas Dixon, Professor of History at
Queen Mary, University of London and author ofWeeping Britannia
‘The history of humankind’s getting to know itself is a history
of attempts to work out what makes us distinctive and where to draw
the boundaries with the non-human. In Human, the authors bring sly
wit and a staggering range of reference to the comparisons that have
obsessed the distinction-hunters and boundary-makers down the ages.
From animals to aliens, from gods to golems, from hominins to H. Rider
Haggard’s “She-who-must-be-obeyed,” Human surveys the most telling
comparisons, revealing how, at every turn, human culture has imprinted
itself on our evolving self-understanding.’
– Gregory Radick, University of Leeds, author of
The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language
About the Author/作者介绍： 夏洛特·雪利（Charlotte Sleigh），英國肯特大學科學人文學系教授，她已經出版了數本有關歷史、文化和動物學的著作，包括Ant (2003)、Frog (2012) 和The Paper Zoo (2016)。
雅曼達·里斯（Amanda Rees）教授在英國約克大學社會學授課。她是
《殺嬰論戰：靈長類動物學和田野調查的藝術》和《表現未來：科幻小說與科學史》的作者。
Charlotte Sleigh is Professor of Science Humanities at the University of Kent. She has published several books on the history, culture and representation of animals including Ant (2003) and Frog (2012) for Reaktion, as well as The Paper Zoo (2016). Amanda Rees is Reader in Sociology at the University of York. She is author of The Infanticide Controversy: Primatology and the Art of Field Science (2009) and Presenting Futures Past: Science Fiction and the History of Science (2019).
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：German and Japanese
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