02900cam a2200517 a 4500 101843 20230410143449.0 091009s2010 nyu b 000 0 eng 2009041364 (OCoLC)ocn457766942 DLC DLC YDXCP MLY NPL C#P BUR BWX YAM VP@ KCP CDX 9780375421716 0375421718 AU@ 000046076068 NZ1 13417558 (OCoLC)457766942 14aGN 33bA161b 2010 304.2 GRAL Abram, David, 1957- Becoming animal : an earthly cosmology / David Abram. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c2010. 313, [2] p. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]). 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.--From publisher description. 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 -- Conclusion : at the heart of the heart of the world. Anthropology Philosophy. Human beings Animal nature. Biosphere. Human ecology. Cosmology. Perception. Nature Effect of human beings on. Ecología humana. Naturaleza Influencia de los seres humanos. Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1101/2009041364-b.html Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1101/2009041364-d.html Sample text http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1101/2009041364-s.html YBP Library Services YANK 3203040 Blackwell Book Service BBUS R2861997 $26.95 Coutts Information Services COUT 11156684 lcc bk CV C0 DRFGD 102185 102185 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2023-04-10 0 GN 33 A161b 2010 00000093866 2019-01-21 00:00:00 1 2019-01-21 bk