by Mark Rowlands · Rogner & Bernhard · tapa dura · ISBN 9783954030484
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«Der Läufer und der Wolf» is the philosophical essay by Mark Rowlands, published by Rogner & Bernhard in hardback (239 pages, in German).
Mark Rowlands, a philosophy professor and unconventional runner, trains for a marathon despite an unhealed injury. He reflects on freedom, accepting ageing and life as a long race, accompanied by the wolf Brenin and the dogs Tess and Hugo, with references to Plato, Sartre, Heidegger and Schopenhauer.
The translation is by Michael Hein. First German edition, published on 25 March 2014.
For readers interested in philosophy, running and memoirs with animals.
Mark Rowlands is a Welsh writer and philosopher. He is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami, and the author of several books on the philosophy of mind, the moral status of non-human animals, and cultural criticism. He is known within academic philosophy for his work on the animal mind and is one of the principal architects of the view known as vehicle externalism, or the extended mind, the view that thoughts, memories, desires and beliefs can be stored outside the brain and the skull. His works include Animal Rights (1998), The Body in Mind (1999), The Nature of Consciousness (2001), Animals Like Us (2002), and a personal memoir, The Philosopher and the Wolf (2008).
