Ishmael

About “Ishmael”

Ishmael is a 1992 philosophical novel by Daniel Quinn. It explores themes of ethics, sustainability, and global catastrophe by examining hidden cultural biases in modern civilization. The story is presented as a Socratic dialogue between two characters, aiming to challenge widely accepted assumptions, such as human supremacy, which the novel argues are cultural myths leading to harmful consequences. The novel received the $500,000 Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991, the year before its official publication. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)