A book review on representational forms that go beyond language
- Full title: How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
- Author: Eduardo Kohn
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Paperback: 288 pages
- Year: 2013
My Review’s Abstract
Expanding the scholarship inspired by ontological and multispecies turn and contributing to the Anthropocene debate, “How Forests Think” epitomizes the urge for post-humanist responsibility and the need for new ecological reconfiguration.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- On Selves, Forms and Hierarchy
- The Formation of Ontological Machine
- Reading for the Masses
Original Abstract (2013)
Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human―and thus distinct from all other life forms.
How Forests Think – Book Review