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008			130716s2010 nyu b 000 0 eng
010			_a2009041364
020			_a9780375713699
050	0	0	_aGN33 _b.A32 2010
082	0	0	_a301.01 ABR
100	1		_aAbram, David
245	1	0	_aBecoming animal _b: an earthly cosmology _c/ David Abram.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Pantheon Books _c, c2010.
300			_a313, [2] p. _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [315]).
520			_aA 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.
650		4	_aPhilosophical anthropology
650		4	_aHuman-animal relationships _z-United States
650		0	_aBiosphere
650		0	_aHuman ecology
650		0	_aCosmology
650		4	_aPerception in animals
650		0	_aNature _x--Effect of human beings on
942			_cMO
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