{"product_id":"being-salmon-being-human-encountering-the-wild-in-us-and-us-in-the-wild","title":"Being Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBeing Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMartin Lee Mueller\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781603587457\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eChelsea Green Publishing\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2017\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e368\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNautilus Award Silver Medal Winner, Ecology \u0026amp; Environment\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIn search of a new story for our place on earth\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eBeing Salmon, Being Human\u003c\/i\u003e examines Western culture's tragic alienation from nature by focusing on the relationship between people and salmon―weaving together key narratives about the Norwegian salmon industry as well as wild salmon in indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMueller uses this lens to articulate a comprehensive critique of human exceptionalism, directly challenging the four-hundred-year-old notion that other animals are nothing but complicated machines without rich inner lives and that Earth is a passive backdrop to human experience. Being fully human, he argues, means experiencing the intersection of our horizon of understanding with that of other animals. Salmon are the test case for this. Mueller experiments, in evocative narrative passages, with imagining the world as a salmon might see it, and considering how this enriches our understanding of humanity in the process. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eBeing Salmon, Being Human\u003c\/i\u003e is both a philosophical and a narrative work, rewarding readers with insightful interpretations of major philosophers―Descartes, Heidegger, Abram, and many more―and reflections on the human-Earth relationship. It stands alongside Abram's Spell of the Sensuous and Becoming Animal, as well as Andreas Weber's The Biology of Wonder and Matter and Desire―heralding a new \"Copernican revolution\" in the fields of biology, ecology, and philosophy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"Philosophically, scientifically, morally, and artistically, Mueller blows the [salmon] industry guys literally out of the water. If you care about the future of salmon, you must read this essential, rigorously documented book.\"―Sy Montgomery, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eTamed and Untamed\u003c\/i\u003e; author of \u003ci\u003eThe Soul of an Octopus \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A marvelous exploration of what it means to belong within life's community. Mueller integrates imagination and analysis to produce a book of rare and important insight.\"―David George Haskell, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Songs of Trees \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Chelsea Green Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Being Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild | Martin Lee Mueller | Paperback | 9781603587457 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks E 1784391","offer_id":67623850213528,"sku":"1784391","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81_FwVF53eL.jpg?v=1790968205","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/being-salmon-being-human-encountering-the-wild-in-us-and-us-in-the-wild","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}