{"product_id":"9781603587464","title":"Being Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn search of a new story for our place on earth\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeing Salmon, Being Human\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMueller 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeing Salmon, Being Human\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eSpell of the Sensuous\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBecoming Animal\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as Andreas Weber’s \u003cem\u003eThe Biology of Wonder\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMatter and Desire\u003c\/em\u003e—heralding a new “Copernican revolution” in the fields of biology, ecology, and philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chelsea Green Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147792400624,"sku":"9781603587464","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781603587464_p0.jpg?v=1763825811","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781603587464","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}