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100 1 _aAbram, David,
_d1957-
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245 1 0 _aBecoming animal :
_ban earthly cosmology /
_cDavid Abram.
250 _a1st Vintage Books ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bVintage Books,
_c2011.
300 _a315 p. ;
_c21 cm.
500 _aOriginally published in hardcover: New York : Pantheon Books, c2010. Reprinted in paperback, September 2011.
501 _aP.B
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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 -- Conclusion: At the heart of the heart of the world.
520 _aThis 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.
650 0 _aAnthropology
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aHuman beings
_xAnimal nature.
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650 0 _aBiosphere.
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650 0 _aHuman ecology.
650 0 _aCosmology.
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650 0 _aPerception.
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650 0 _aNature
_xEffect of human beings on.
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