Becoming animal : an earthly cosmology
Abram, David
Becoming animal : an earthly cosmology / David Abram. - 1st ed. - New York : Pantheon Books , c2010. - 313, [2] p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]).
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.
9780375713699
2009041364
Philosophical anthropology
Human-animal relationships---United States
Biosphere
Human ecology
Cosmology
Perception in animals
Nature----Effect of human beings on
GN33 / .A32 2010
301.01 ABR
Becoming animal : an earthly cosmology / David Abram. - 1st ed. - New York : Pantheon Books , c2010. - 313, [2] p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]).
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.
9780375713699
2009041364
Philosophical anthropology
Human-animal relationships---United States
Biosphere
Human ecology
Cosmology
Perception in animals
Nature----Effect of human beings on
GN33 / .A32 2010
301.01 ABR
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