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Title Statement Becoming animal : an earthly cosmology
Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint) Pantheon Books, New York : 2010
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Summary, etc 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..
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ISBN 978-0-375-42171-6 978-0-375-71369-9 (Vintage pbk.)
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David Abram's first book, The Spell of the Sensuous --hailed as "revolutionary" by the Los Angeles Times, as "daring and truly original" by Science --has become a classic of environmental literature. Now Abram returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature.
Note to the Reader p. xi Introduction: Between the Body and the Breathing Earth p. 3 Shadow p. 13 House p. 25 Wood and Stone p. 37 Reciprocity p. 57 Depth p. 81 Mind p. 103 Mood p. 131 The Speech of Things p. 159 The Discourse of the Birds p. 183 Sleight-of-Hand p. 201 Shapeshifting p. 229 The Real in Its Wonder p. 259 Conclusion: At the Heart of the Heart of the World p. 293 Acknowledgments p. 311