BEING A HUMAN

What kind of creature is a human? If we don't know what we are, how can we know how to act? In Being a Human Charles Foster sets out to understand what a human is, inhabiting the sensory worlds of humans at three pivotal moments in our history.Foster begins his qu est in a wood in Derbyshire with his son, shivering, starving and hunting, trying to find a way of experiencing the world that recog nises the deep expanse of time when we understood ourselves as hunter-gatherers, indivisible from the non-human world, and when mode rn consc...[Read more]