Becoming Animal, David Abram
Becoming Animal, David Abram
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Becoming Animal
An Earthly Cosmology

Author: David Abram

Narrator: David Abram

Unabridged: 13 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/20/2017

Categories: Nonfiction, Nature, Ecology


Synopsis

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 muscled flesh, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living world at a distance. This book 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.

The shapeshifting of ravens, the erotic nature of gravity, the eloquence of thunder, the pleasures of being edible: all have their place in Abram's investigation. 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 spiders, steadily participate.

With the audacity of its vision and the luminosity of its prose, Becoming Animal sets a new benchmark for the human appraisal of our place in the whole.

About David Abram

David Abram is an ecologist, anthropologist, and philosopher who lectures and teaches widely around the world. The recipient of a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, David was named by both the Utne Reader and the British journal Resurgence as one of a hundred visionaries transforming contemporary culture. His writings on the cultural causes and consequences of environmental disarray are published in numerous magazines, scholarly journals, and anthologies. A cofounder of the Alliance for Wild Ethics (AWE), David lives with his family in the foothills of the southern Rockies.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Adam on November 30, 2014

I'll use this article I wrote as a stand-in for a review: If people took the science about climate change seriously, gas station attendants would turn off the pumps. Coal miners would put coal back in the ground — with shovels. The National Guard would occupy the refineries, confiscate the tankers an......more

Goodreads review by Martin on August 26, 2010

The challenge in reading this book is that it kept making me go outside to take walks. To sit. To observe. Every time I read parts of it I felt more embodied and more part of the world around me. A must read!......more

Goodreads review by Amy on November 02, 2010

I didn't think I could love a book more than David Abram's first book, The Spell of the Sensuous, but this second book, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology, is like the flower of which that book was the bud. It reads like poetry in its constant evocation of sensible experience in nature whether th......more

Goodreads review by Mike on July 31, 2012

Very interesting. Not the kind of book you want to read in one swell foop. Take your time and chew on it as you go.......more

Goodreads review by Mercedes on December 20, 2021

No sé si existe este concepto, pero este podría ser un libro de compañía, no me refiero a un libro de mesa de luz ni de consulta permanente, sino a un libro que acompaña un momento específico que requiere una elaboración en el tiempo, un proceso madurativo. El texto está dividido en capítulos situac......more