Rainer J. Hanshe
Humanimality
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Humanimality is a confrontation, a hybrid monster of a book that interrogates humanity’s troubled relation with its animality, and so its relation to animals, the earth and, ultimately, the cosmos.
In driving not only many species to extinction, but also endangering its very own existence, as well as imperiling the life of the planet, homo sapiens seem to be the most foolhardy species to have evolved since the dawn of time. Will the species drive itself to extinction, or will life itself, for evolution has not ceased, bring about the demise of that species through natural selection in order to preserve the planet? If other species have come and gone since the formation of life on earth, the persisting of homo sapiens is considerably dubious.
Philosophy, religion, and science spiral through this book like chemicals to cross, charge, and finally detonate in an astonishing denouement.
Humanimality is a bastard child, a book with nothing but the logic of physics to map the ecstasy of life.
Title Info
Rainer J. Hanshe
Humanimality (October 2025)
ISBN: 978-1-940625-77-5
USD $21.00
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Our other Hanshe books include: Closing Melodies, Shattering the Muses, The Abdication, and the translations High Solitude, The Creativity of the Crisis, Paris Spleen, Belgium Stripped Bare, Conversations in the Pyrenees, Innocent, Army of Shadows, My Heart Laid Bare, and Marginalia on Casanova (introduction). As editor and introducer: Fragments, Towards the One & Only Metaphor, Plays with Films.