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'How can an iceberg be alive? By being perceived as an active partner by other living beings, be they autochthonous peoples from the Far North or scientists, explorers, writers, painters. Leafing through a variety of sensible experiences of these floating mountains, and reflecting poetically on their philosophical implications, Remaud draws a lesson: indifference to the death of glaciers reflects the incapacity of most Modern humans to think themselves as mere parts of a greater whole.' Philippe Descola, author of Beyond Nature and Culture

''How can an iceberg be alive? By being perceived as an active partner by other living beings, be they autochthonous peoples from the Far North or scientists, explorers, writers, painters. Leafing through a variety of sensible experiences of these floating mountains, and reflecting poetically on their philosophical implications, Remaud draws a lesson: indifference to the death of glaciers reflects the incapacity of most Modern humans to think themselves as mere parts of a greater whole.'' Philippe Descola, author of Beyond Nature and Culture “Invites you to look at the link between humans and nature in a completely new way” Sally Hayden, The Irish Times

"""How can an iceberg be alive? By being perceived as an active partner by other living beings, be they autochthonous peoples from the Far North or scientists, explorers, writers, painters. Leafing through a variety of sensible experiences of these floating mountains, and reflecting poetically on their philosophical implications, Remaud draws a lesson: indifference to the death of glaciers reflects the incapacity of most Modern humans to think themselves as mere parts of a greater whole."" —Philippe Descola, author of Beyond Nature and Culture ""Invites you to look at the link between humans and nature in a completely new way."" —Sally Hayden, The Irish Times ""Thinking Like an Iceberg tells a detailed and imaginative story of ice that sees ice as aware of its own existence and fate and its role within human society and history.... As glaciers continue to melt at alarming rates and ever-larger icebergs calve into the ocean, Remaud has created a book that prompts us to contemplate in a new way what it means to lose this shifting, cracking, bubbling and increasingly temporary structure and surface."" —Polar Research"

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Olivier Remaud is Professor of Philosophy at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris.

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