Man the Monster

Rethinking the past

• Speaker: Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 

In mythological texts early humans were thought of in two opposing ways; those who were civilized and lived in urban settlements and those who were wild and lived among the animals - Adam, the Hebrew bible’s first man, can be regarded as a wild man. The inevitable slide into civilization can be seen as a loss of innocence as the wild man rejects and tames the nature that he was once a part of. In this lecture Dr Llewellyn Jones argues that the wild man, seen as monstrous by urban society, is an innocent child of nature and that the monstrous is unlocked when mankind forgets its original bond with the wild.

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