The Second Body

Name: The Second Body
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SKU: 9781910695470
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By Daisy Hildyard

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The Second Body by Daisy Hildyard explores the intimate and interconnected relationship between humans and the wider animal world. Through encounters with a butcher, an environmental criminologist, a biologist, and others, Hildyard investigates how human existence is both physical and deeply embedded in global ecosystems. The essay reflects on the blurred boundaries between species and the profound impact humans have on the environment, culminating in a personal narrative of a flood that symbolically unites her 'second body' with her physical self.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in politics, current affairs, ecology, environmental philosophy, and anyone curious about the complex links between human life and the natural world.

The Second Body is a brilliantly lucid account of the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth.

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Every living thing has two bodies. To be an animal is to be in possession of a physical body, a body which can eat, drink and sleep; it is also to be embedded in a worldwide network of ecosystems. When every human body has an uncanny global presence, how do we live with ourselves?

In this timely and elegant essay, Daisy Hildyard captures the second body by exploring how the human is a part of animal life. She meets Richard, a butcher in Yorkshire, and sees pigs turned into boiled ham; and Gina, an environmental criminologist, who tells her about leopards and silver foxes kept as pets in luxury apartments. She speaks to Luis, a biologist, about the origins of life; and talks to Nadezhda about fungi in an effort to understand how we define animal life. Eventually, her second body comes to visit her first body when the river flooded her home last year.

The Second Body is a brilliantly lucid account of the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth.

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Publishers' Weekly praises the book's intimate, imaginative voice that draws from biology, ecology, literature, and sociology to explore human existence as both individual and global. The Times Literary Supplement highlights Hildyard's playful and original approach to the limits of understanding other creatures' experiences and the boundaries between humans and ecosystems. The Guardian describes the essays as thought-provoking and beautiful, urging readers to consider the impact of anthropogenic climate and ecological disruption.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781910695470

Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 November 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Fitzcarraldo Editions

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 195.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 128

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About the Author

Daisy Hildyard holds a PhD in the history of science, and has previously published essays on the language of science, and on seventeenth-century mathematics. Her first novel Hunters in the Snow received the Somerset Maugham Award and a '5 under 35' honorarium at the USA National Book Awards. She lives with her family in North Yorkshire, where she was born.

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