Manières d'être vivant

Imagine this fable: a species secedes. It declares that the ten million other species on Earth, its relatives, are "nature". Namely: not beings but things, not actors but the scenery, resources at hand. One species on one side, ten million on the other, and yet one family, one world. This fiction is our heritage. Its violence has contributed to ecological upheaval. That's why we need to wage a cultural battle to restore the importance of living things. This book sets out to do just that. By tracking down animals in the field, and the ideas we have of them in the forest of knowledge. Can we learn to feel alive, to love each other as alive? How can we imagine a politics of interdependence that combines cohabitation with otherness with the fight against that which destroys the fabric of life? It's all about getting to know each other again: approaching the Earth's inhabitants, humans included, as ten million ways of being alive.