Becoming animal : an earthly cosmology / David Abram.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2011Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st Vintage Books pbk. editionDescription: 310 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0375713697
- 9780375713699
- 304.2 23
- GN33 .A32 2011
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303.69 WIN Narrative mediation : a new approach to conflict resolution / | 303.69071 FIT Free the children! : conflict education for strong peaceful minds / | 304 BOD The Body : social process and cultural theory / | 304.2 ABR Becoming animal : an earthly cosmology / | 304.2 BER The great work : our way into the future / | 304.2 DUB A God within / | 304.2 EMM 10 billion / |
Originally published in hardcover: New York : Pantheon Books, c2010. Reprinted in paperback, September 2011.
Between the body and the breathing Earth -- Shadow -- House -- Wood and stone -- Reciprocity -- Depth -- Mind -- Mood -- The speech of things -- The discourse of the birds -- Sleight-of-hand -- Shapeshifting -- The real in its wonder -- At the heart of the heart of the world.
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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