This could have been one or two papers
2 stars
Despite the interesting ideas in it, i can’t recommend those book. It’s just too repetitive. All its points are outlined in the introduction and then basically just connected with sources without adding much to them.
I can imagine this being a good starting point for further research, as a kind of elaborate bibliography, but not as a work of much substance by itself.
It also makes a lot of assumptions about how human beings voew themselves through a humanist lens, as inherently exceptional within nature, which isn’t necessarily the case.