Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (559 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073SDNQFG |
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| Number of Pages | : | 444 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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It is a mistake to read it as though searching for a point or to easily gain specific ideas To me, this is a book of poetry in prose form. It is a mistake to read it as though searching for a point or to easily gain specific ideas. I am not always or often in that mood. It is not a book to sit and read through like a novel or a history book. The value in this book is that it is a sensual dream. Americans, Western peoples at this time are not used to such things. Perhaps it would nourish our souls if we would spend some time wit. R Mack said Quick and Refreshing. Lovely writing, poetry, and pose. I bought this because I was interested in traditions in which the human looks to acknowledge personal animality and also look to understand the other animals with whom we share the world. Abram gives his own interpretation of these traditions. So these insights are one step removed from the source. The only reason for Quick and Refreshing R Mack Lovely writing, poetry, and pose. I bought this because I was interested in traditions in which the human looks to acknowledge personal animality and also look to understand the other animals with whom we share the world. Abram gives his own interpretation of these traditions. So these insights are one step removed from the source. The only reason for 4 stars was that I was disappointed that it was so short. I was done in one sitting.. stars was that I was disappointed that it was so short. I was done in one sitting.. Amy Hannon said Good Medicine. Thomas Berry diagnosed the ailment of our culture as autism. In a similar vein, Richard Louv called it nature-deficit disorder. Either way David Abram's new book, Becoming Animal, is good medicine for our entrancement with the written word and the electronic screens which flatten our world to two dimensions. In the philosophical tradition of the phenomenologists describing our different forms of alienation, this book lures us back to our
This audiobook subverts that distance, drawing listeners ever deeper into their animal senses in order to explore, from within, the elemental kinship between the body and the breathing Earth. For too long we've inured ourselves to the wild intelligence of our muscled flesh, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living world at a distance. 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. He 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 spid