The word of dog What our canine companions can teach us about living a good life
Book - 2025
"If you have spent any part of your life with a dog, you may have found certain questions popping, unbidden, into your mind: Is my dog living a fulfilled life? Is my dog a good dog? Does my dog love me? Addressing these questions compels you to confront not just your dog's life but yours as well--to think about what fulfillment, and meaning, in life really is. In The Word of Dog, philosopher Mark Rowlands explores these questions and suggests that in dogs we can see hints--faint, shrouded, but discernible--of what a better way of living might look like. Perhaps none of us can be happy in the way a dog can, but The Word of Dog shows us we could do a lot better than we're doing simply by listening to the unspoken wisdom our dog...s reveal to us every day of their happy, uncomplicated lives." --
- Subjects
- Published
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[New York, New York] :
Liveright Publishing Corporation
2025.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First American edition
- Item Description
- "First published in Great Britain in 2024 by Granta Books as The Happiness of Dogs: Why the Unexamined Life Is Most Worth Living"--T.p. verso.
Includes index. - Physical Description
- 249 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9781324095682
- Shadow's rock
- The unexamined life
- Mirror, mirror
- A gambler's freedom
- Good dogs
- A design for life
- Just dogs with the yips
- Sometimes toward Eden
- Further reading.