Domination, mistreatment, attachment: the complex and ambiguous bonds that we weave with animals say a lot about our relationship to the world.
Laurent Bègue-Shankland, professor of social psychology at Grenoble-Alpes University, director of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme-Alpes in Grenoble and member of the Institut Universitaire de France, analyzes in his book
Face aux Animaux.
Our emotions, our prejudices, our ambivalences
(1) the evolution of our behavior with other species and the mutation of sensitivities towards the living.
Meet.
In video, the stars and their animals in confinement
Madame Figaro.– What led you to take an interest in animals and write this book?
Laurent Begue-Shankland.
– The psychology of human-animal relationships is booming, and it was time to take stock when I started writing this book.
The animal question has become a subject of society, and we lacked a book that takes stock of this subject in an accessible way.
Those who…
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