Book Details
⚡️Book Title : Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
⚡Book Author : David Abram
⚡Page : 336 pages
⚡Published September 6th 2011 by Vintage (first published January 1st 2010)
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology - A PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Runner-up David Abrams 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 he returns with 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 weve ignored the wild intelligence of our bodies, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living world at a distance. Abrams writing subverts this distance, drawing readers ever closer to their animal senses in order to explore, from within, the elemental kinship between the human body and the breathing Earth. The shape-shifting of ravens, the erotic nature of gravity, the eloquence of thunder, the pleasures of being edible: all have their place in this book.
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
A PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Runner-up David Abrams 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 he returns with 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 weve ignored the wild intelligence of our bodies, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living world at a distance. Abrams writing subverts this distance, drawing readers ever closer to their animal senses in order to explore, from within, the elemental kinship between the human body and the breathing Earth. The shape-shifting of ravens, the erotic nature of gravity, the eloquence of thunder, the pleasures of being edible: all have their place in this book.
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