Between Light and Storm

Name: Between Light and Storm
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SKU: 9781783782802
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Our Lives With Other Species

By Esther Woolfson

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Between Light and Storm traces humanity's evolving relationship with animals, beginning from life's origins on Earth. Esther Woolfson explores how conceptions of the soul and conscience have shaped our beliefs about human superiority, and surveys our complex treatment of animals through art, science, consumption, sport, and ownership. Combining philosophy, theology, history, and personal experience, she makes a powerful case for a more humble and compassionate connection with the animal kingdom.
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This book suits readers interested in ethical questions surrounding animals, including students and scholars of philosophy, theology, environmental studies, and animal welfare, as well as thoughtful general readers seeking to deepen their understanding of human-animal relationships.

A landmark book about the fraught relationship between humans and animals that takes us from Genesis to climate change.

A landmark book about the fraught relationship between humans and animals that takes us from Genesis to climate change

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Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, 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 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.

Between Light and Storm offers a profound examination of our interactions with animals, inviting readers to rethink and reshape our roles within the natural world.

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Isabella Tree calls the book "elegiac, haunting and piercingly intelligent," praising Woolfson's articulate and moving reflections. Charles Foster describes it as "powerful, poignant, and urgently important," highlighting its meticulous research and readability. Frans de Waal remarks on its timely and sensitive insights into our relationship with animals and the natural world.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781783782802

Publisher: Granta Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 September 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Granta Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 258g

Pages: 368

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About the Author

Esther Woolfson grew up in Glasgow and studied Chinese at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Edinburgh University. She has been the recipient of a Scottish Arts Council Travel Grant and a Writer's Bursary. Her first book was Corvus: A Life with Birds, and her second, Field Notes from a Hidden City, was shortlisted for the 2014 Thwaites Wainwright Prize for Nature and Travel Writing. She lives in Aberdeen.