Analyzes The Different Feelings, Drives And Instincts We Have Inherited From Other Species, To Suggest A New Understanding Of Ourselves As Part Of An Eco-political Community.against The Idea Of Social Contract Theories That Suggest Humans Invented The Political, Gerard Kuperus Argues That We Have Always Been Political And That Our Species Came Into Existence In A World That Was Already Political. By Studying The Rich Social And Political Lives Of Other Animals, Ecopolitics Provides Suggestions For How To Think And Feel Differently About Ourselves, Our Relationship To Other People, And The Places And Beings Around Us. Kuperus Suggests We Understand Ourselves As Part Of An Ecopolitical Community Consisting Of Humans And Other Living Beings As Well As Inanimate Objects.