Between Light and Storm: How We Live with Other Species

Between Light and Storm: How We Live with Other Species

By Esther Woolfson

Esther Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions of the soul and conscience in relation to the animal kingdom, and the consequences of our belief in human superiority. She also examines ethical issues surrounding our treatment of animals.

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Publisher: Pegasus Books
Publish Date: 12/06/2022
Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781639362769
ISBN-10: 1639362762
Language: English

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A landmark examination of the fraught relationship between humans and animals, taking the reader from Genesis to climate change. Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers prehistoric human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions of the soul and conscience in relation to the animal kingdom, and the consequences of our belief in human superiority. She explores our representation of animals in art, our consumption of them for food, our experiments on them for science, and our willingness to slaughter them for sport and fashion, as well as examining concepts of love and ownership. Drawing on philosophy and theology, art and history, as well as her own experience of living with animals and coming to know, love, and respect them as individuals, Woolfson examines some of the most complex ethical issues surrounding our treatment of animals and argues passionately and persuasively for a more humble, more humane, relationship with the creatures who share our world.

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Esther Woolfson is the author of Corvus: A Life With Birds and Field Notes From a Hidden City: An Urban Nature Diary , which was short­ listed for the Wainwright Prize and the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize.

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