Adam's Task (ePub)
Calling Animals by Name
(Sprache: Englisch)
A groundbreaking meditation on our human-animal relationships and the moral code that binds it.
Adam's Task, Vicki Hearne's innovative masterpiece on animal training, brings our perennial discussion of the human-animal bond to a whole new...
Adam's Task, Vicki Hearne's innovative masterpiece on animal training, brings our perennial discussion of the human-animal bond to a whole new...
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A groundbreaking meditation on our human-animal relationships and the moral code that binds it.
Adam's Task, Vicki Hearne's innovative masterpiece on animal training, brings our perennial discussion of the human-animal bond to a whole new metaphysical level. Based on studies of literary criticism, philosophy, and extensive hands-on experience in training, Hearne asserts, in boldly anthropomorphic terms, that animals (at least those that interact more with humans) are far more intelligent than we assume. In fact, they are capable of developing an understanding of "the good," a moral code that influences their motives and actions.
Drawing on an eclectic range of influences-Nietzsche, T. S. Eliot, Disney animal trainer William Koehler, and Genesis from the Bible, among others-Hearne writes in contemplative, exploratory, and brilliant prose as she interweaves personal anecdotes with philosophy. Hearne develops an entirely new system of animal training that contradicts modern animal behavioral research and that, as her examples show, is astonishingly effective.
Widely praised, highly influential, and now with a new foreword by New York Times bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler, Adam's Task will make every trainer, animal psychologist, and animal-lover stop, think, and question.
Adam's Task, Vicki Hearne's innovative masterpiece on animal training, brings our perennial discussion of the human-animal bond to a whole new metaphysical level. Based on studies of literary criticism, philosophy, and extensive hands-on experience in training, Hearne asserts, in boldly anthropomorphic terms, that animals (at least those that interact more with humans) are far more intelligent than we assume. In fact, they are capable of developing an understanding of "the good," a moral code that influences their motives and actions.
Drawing on an eclectic range of influences-Nietzsche, T. S. Eliot, Disney animal trainer William Koehler, and Genesis from the Bible, among others-Hearne writes in contemplative, exploratory, and brilliant prose as she interweaves personal anecdotes with philosophy. Hearne develops an entirely new system of animal training that contradicts modern animal behavioral research and that, as her examples show, is astonishingly effective.
Widely praised, highly influential, and now with a new foreword by New York Times bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler, Adam's Task will make every trainer, animal psychologist, and animal-lover stop, think, and question.
Autoren-Porträt von Vicki Hearne
Vicki Hearne was an accomplished scholar of linguistics, literature, philosophy, and behavioral psychology, as well as a poet. She was a professor at Yale University and operated a dog-training school for years in Westbrook, Connecticut.Donald McCaig is the author of Jacob'sLadder, Rhett Butler'sPeople, and Canaan. He and his wife, Anne, work a sheep farm in the western mountains of Virginia.
Karen Joy Fowler is a New York Times-bestselling author of six novels, including The Jane Austen Book Club and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, which was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. She lives in Santa Cruz, California.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Vicki Hearne
- 2016, Proprietary, 296 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
- ISBN-10: 1510704221
- ISBN-13: 9781510704220
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.10.2016
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“[A] fascinating, incisive work of moral imagination.” —Susan Sontag“A beautiful, wonderful book . . . that permanently refreshes thought and feeling.” —The Boston Globe
“As witty, wise and rare a book as has come along in some time.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“This wonderful book will become essential to anyone who chooses to live with a horse, dog, or cat.” —David Leavitt
“A fascinating and often surprising discussion of animal-human encounters.” —The Atlantic Monthly
“This engrossing treatise on animal behavior and interspecies communication provides an astute and possibly unique synthesis of a domestic animal trainer's practical knowledge and the intellectually more distant and even sterile theories of the academic world.” —Library Journal
“Through luminous anecdotes, she . . . develops rigorous and beautiful descriptions of the transactions between animals and people, what they entail, and what the expectations—on both sides—are.” —Publishers Weekly
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