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Vinciane Despret: “To combat species decline, we need passions of joy”
Vinciane Despret is a philosopher and psychologist who teaches at the University of Liège and the Free University of Brussels Belgium She impudently questions our relationship with animals in works such as Quand le loup habitera avec lagneau When the Wolf Lives with the Lamb Penser comme un rat Thinking Like a Rat and Habiter en oiseau Living as a Bird Through close observation of animal behaviour she seeks to change the way we look at living things including through fiction as in her latest book Autobiographie dun poulpe Autobiography of an Octopus