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Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

David Abram

Paperback | Pages: 336 pages

Rating: 4.12 | 1030 Users | 128 Reviews

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ISBN:	0375713697 (ISBN13: 9780375713699)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Orion Book Award Nominee (2011), PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Nominee (2011)

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A PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Runner-up

David Abram’s 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 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.

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Title	:	Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
Author	:	David Abram
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	September 6th 2011 by Vintage (first published January 1st 2010)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Philosophy. Environment. Nature. Science. Animals

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Becoming Animal starts with a "Notes to the Reader" section. Summed up, it is "If you don't like this book, you're a PeePeeHead." The "Notes to the Reader" section is followed by a nine page introduction that can be summed up as "If you don't like this book, if you aren't captivated by my language, by my awe at being awed, at the fact that I'm busting my gut to be the next Loren Eiseley, that I've written an agonizingly self-indulgent book because my first book took off unexpectedly and now I'm

Dave is a wonderful person and writer who has so much insight on what it means to be truly human in the world. This is a work to be savored.

This is one of my Top Twenty books of non-fiction. I couldn't say enough great things about this book if I tried forever. There are so many phrases highlighted in my Kindle version that it really pops! I even bought a hard copy of it after reading the digital because I knew that I would return to it over and over. Even if you're already in tune with Nature, this book will shift your perceptions further. LOVE IT!

The author's purplish prose will make or break your opinion of this book. He's the sort of guy who attaches an adverb to every verb and writes rococo phrases like "at this present moment of the earth's unfolding" instead of the word "now". If that appeals, go for it; if not, avoid at all costs.

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 and shut down the pipelines.It would be an international state of emergency, with a response beyond any emergency mobilization we have had to muster before. Never before has the threat been so great, nor

A spellbinding edict for the de-familiarization of our Earthly habitation, Abram's Becoming Animal is equal parts poetic lyricism and paradoxical migrane. Because I have a taste for the phenomenological, and a penchant for the ornate, I lean toward the former: David Abrams writing is both beautiful and instructive, even when it demands a leap of faith that he has a direction to his wandering and purpose to his probing. Sometimes I wanted to slow him down, to have him scale back his far-reaching

I loved Abram's first book and this one is just as illuminating, but it's a whole lot more annoying. It's still worth 4 stars if not more for all of the insights that I gleaned from it. However, there is so much in here about Abram's wanderings around the world and his bird calls and just cooky thoughts and behaviors that it was often hard to extract the really poignant nuggets.