Becoming animal
Subtitle: an earthly cosmology
By: David Abram
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780375421716
Subjects: Perception; Nature; Biosphere; Philosophy; Cosmology; Anthropology; Human beings; Human ecology; Effect of human beings on; Animal nature
Description: A startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature. As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading through the biosphere make vividly evident the need for a metamorphosis in our relation to the living land. For too long we've inured ourselves to the wild intelligence of our flesh, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living world at a distance. This book subverts that distance, drawing readers ever deeper into their animal senses in order to explore, from within, the elemental kinship between the body and the breathing Earth. Abram shows that from the awakened perspective of the human animal, awareness (or mind) is not an exclusive possession of our species but a lucid quality of the biosphere itself--a quality in which we, along with the oaks and the spiders, steadily participate.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]).