Name: Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
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Author: Abram, David
ISBN: 9780375713699

portada Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

Type

Physical Book

Author

David Abram

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2011

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x13.5x1.8 cm

Weight

0.26 kg.

ISBN13

9780375713699

Edition No.

Synopsis "Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology "

David Abram's first book, The Spell of the Sensuous 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 we've ignored the wild intelligence of our bodies, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living world at a distance. Abram's 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.

David Abram

(Author)

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Cultural ecologist, geophilosopher, and performance artist. Described as "revolutionary" by the Los Angeles Times, "bold" and "truly original" by Science magazine, David's work has helped catalyze the emergence of several new disciplines, including the burgeoning field of ecopsychology. His essays on the cultural causes and consequences of environmental disorder are published in numerous magazines, academic journals, and anthologies. David, who has received several grants and awards, including the Lannan International Literary Award for Nonfiction, recently held the Arne Naess Chair in Global Justice and Ecology at the University of Oslo in Norway. He is currently a senior visiting scholar in Ecology and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University. A member of Schumacher College in England, David is the founder and creative director of the Alliance for Wild Ethics (AWE).

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