Becoming animal : an earthly cosmology / David Abram.
This work is an 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 have inured ourselves t...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Vintage Books,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st Vintage Books pbk. edition. |
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| Summary: | This work is an 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 have 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. The author 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. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published in hardcover: New York : Pantheon Books, c2010. Reprinted in paperback, September 2011. |
| Physical Description: | 310 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 0375713697 9780375713699 |