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Le SDF, assis sur un banc, une bouteille de bière à la main, m'interpelle : « Tu cours après quoi ? ». Tout en continuant à courir, je me contente de me retourner et de sourire à sa petite provocation. Lui se voit sans doute en homme libre, affranchi des lubies bizarres de tous ces citadins stressés qui passent une partie de leurs loisirs à continuer à courir. Mais sa question mérite d'être prise au sérieux : « Après quoi tu cours ? » Et la réponse est loin d'être évidente. Le « running boom » est un phénomène planétaire : aujourd'hui, nous sommes des millions à courir dans le monde entier. Mais pourquoi courons-nous tous ? Quelles sont les motivations fondamentales qui guident nos comportements ? Les questions les plus simples sont parfois les plus redoutables. Dans ce nouvel essai, Jean-François Dortier explore ce phénomène de société – le running boom – pour offrir une réflexion globale sur la nature humaine. Avec le souci de ne pas prendre le lecteur en otage et de nouer avec lui un dialogue ouvert sur une question fondatrice des sciences humaines : Qu'est-ce qu'un être humain ? Et qu'est-ce qui le fait courir ?

Human behavior. --- Philosophical anthropology.

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Brain. --- Human behavior - Physiological aspects. --- Human behavior. --- Neurophysiology.

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This book uses a precise, step-by-step, scientific approach to explain human behavior. Case studies and examples illustrate key principles.

Behavior modification --- Human behavior --- Behavioral assessment

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Covering all the major topics within biopsychology, and evaluating the most up-to-date findings, this textbook is essential reading for first and second year psychology undergraduates as well as anyone studying courses in neuropsychology or behavioural neuroscience.

Psychobiology. --- Biological psychology --- Biopsychology --- Biology --- Human behavior --- Psychology --- Biological psychiatry

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In our age of ecological disaster, this book joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask how our present debates about biopower and animal studies change if we take plants as a linchpin for thinking about biopolitics. Logically enough, the book uses animal studies as a way into the subject, but it does so in unexpected ways. Upending critical approaches of biopolitical regimes, it argues that it is plants rather than animals that are the forgotten and abjected forms of life under humanist biopower. Indeed, biopolitical theory has consistently sidestepped the issue of vegetable life, and more recently, has been outright hostile to it. Provocatively, Jeffrey T. Nealon wonders whether animal studies, which has taken the "inventor" of biopower himself to task for speciesism, has not misread Foucault, thereby managing to extend humanist biopower rather than to curb its reach. Nealon is interested in how and why this is the case. Plant Theory turns to several other thinkers of the high theory generation in an effort to imagine new futures for the ongoing biopolitical debate.

Plants (Philosophy) --- Biopolitics. --- Political behavior --- Human behavior --- Political science --- Sociobiology --- Philosophy