Read Online Being Salmon Being Human Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild Martin Lee Mueller Stephan Harding 9781603587457 Books
Read Online Being Salmon Being Human Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild Martin Lee Mueller Stephan Harding 9781603587457 Books
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Nautilus Award Silver Medal Winner, Ecology Environment Â
In search of a new story for our place on earth
Being Salmon, Being Human 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.
Mueller 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.
Being Salmon, Being Human 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.
Read Online Being Salmon Being Human Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild Martin Lee Mueller Stephan Harding 9781603587457 Books
"Gadzooks, what a powerful book! The author is a philosopher who has learned to think not merely with his head but with the whole of his body. A keenly aware human animal, Martin Lee Mueller dreams himself salmon flesh. Gill slits open along his neck as he glides between mountain streams and the broad ocean currents. His scales glint and ripple in the moonlight, their reflections posing ever more penetrating questions for our species. This is a game-changing culture-shifting book, ethical and eloquent. It opens the way toward a more mature natural science – one oriented by our own creaturely participation and rapport with the rest of the biosphere."
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Being Salmon Being Human Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild Martin Lee Mueller Stephan Harding 9781603587457 Books Reviews
- The question of being salmon raises the question of what is a salmon and does the true historical wild salmon still exist?
- So timely and so needed!
- Gadzooks, what a powerful book! The author is a philosopher who has learned to think not merely with his head but with the whole of his body. A keenly aware human animal, Martin Lee Mueller dreams himself salmon flesh. Gill slits open along his neck as he glides between mountain streams and the broad ocean currents. His scales glint and ripple in the moonlight, their reflections posing ever more penetrating questions for our species. This is a game-changing culture-shifting book, ethical and eloquent. It opens the way toward a more mature natural science – one oriented by our own creaturely participation and rapport with the rest of the biosphere.
- I have read plenty of books about the state of the environment, global warming, and what a mess we are in at this time in history. This book states those same realities but shows, with depth and encouragement, a way forward (or “in†as Martin Mueller puts it). This book is revelatory! Tracing our current mindset back to Descartes “I think therefore I amâ€, MM uses new definitions and storylines to weave alternatives to this alienating outlook. I love his definitions of humans as, “wise apes, two-leggeds, and embodied creatures in the living land.†His explanation of the “gift cycles†of this living earth express the usually mundane term, food chain, as a loving, breathing, rich system we are an amazing part of. He encourages with sentences like, “It is within this finite local cosmos that our generation strives to absorb the forces of destruction unleashed by modern metaphysics, to contain them, and to metabolize them until they, too, have been turned into a thing of beauty.â€
This book has given me a vision of what a mature human could look like as an affirming member of this amazing biosphere. Thank you, Martin Mueller! - Being Salmon, Being Human by Martin Lee Mueller is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in early October.
An introduction onto the intuitively New Age study of 'eco-philosophy' through researching salmon in Norway and U.S.' Pacific Northwest. Without straining too hard, I can imagine the author reading aloud in a kind of modulated documentarian (one might even say yoga instructor) tone about cultural and tribal lore, honoring nature's elements, domestically farmed versus genetic processed versus wild-caught salmon, the evolution of all of Earth's species, spiritual and cellular regeneration, and what it may be like to be a fish. Rather a lot like if Michael Pollan wandered into a Socratic forum's annual fishing trip.
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