a human memoir that reads like a tormented love affair with its animal star - Frans de Waal, author of OUR INNER APE Extraordinary work of popular philosophy in which the author of Everything I Know I Learned From TV describes what he learned about life, the universe and everything while living with an adopted wolf, Brenin, at his side * The Bookseller * This book is about. Mark Rowlands does just this and I will be sharing his book widely - Marc Bekoff, author of WILD JUSTICE: THE MORAL LIVES OF ANIMALS Rarely has a single animal inspired such deep reflections on morality, mortality, and misanthropy. It's rare that a professor lets his hair down and weaves sentiment, heart, and love into deeper and supposedly more objective academic issues. This moving account of the life he lived with an adopted wolf will be recognized as a seminal work of philosophy that forces us to re-evaluate our view of the human animal - John Gray The Philosopher and the Wolf is a wonderful book.
Just enthralling and unputdownable - Professor Andrew Linzey * Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics * Mark Rowlands has given us that rarest of things - a book that takes the reader beyond the human world, while exploring the deepest human emotions. Impossible not to be moved by the painfully personal narrative and the depth of reflection. It is a profound and beautiful book - Jeffrey Masson An absolute stunner of a book. There is hardly a sentence in the book that did not engage me, stop me, make me think. The heart-strings will be pulled and the mind stimulated * City AM * The Philosopher and the Wolf has been one of the most intense reading experiences of my life. That is what makes The Philosopher and the Wolf so refreshing * Financial Times * An extraordinary memoir * Daily Mail * A powerfully subversive critique of the unexamined assumption that shape the way most philosophers - along with most people - think about animals and themselves * Literary Review * Nothing short of human existence, survival and our relationship to all other creatures is examined here and it's all written in a beautifully elegiac way. a rare contemporary philosopher who is able to learn from everything he experiences in life, not just books and academic journals.
a remarkable portrait of the bond that can exist between a human being and a beast.
This year's most original and instructive work of popular philosophy.
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