BECOMING ANIMAL: AN EARTHLY COSMOLOGY

Book ID/图书代码： 12844010B41235

English Summary/英文概要： 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 Abram 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 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 readers 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.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 大卫•亚伯兰的第一本书《感官的咒语》被《洛杉矶时报》誉为“革命性的”，被科学界誉为“大胆而真正独创”的书，已经成为环境文学的经典之作。现在，亚伯兰回来了，他对人类与自然的纠缠进行了惊人的探索。

随着气候转向灾难，通过生物圈层出不穷的损失清楚地表明，我们与有生命的土地的关系需要改变。太长时间以来，我们已经习惯于我们肌肉发达的肉体的野性智慧，从将生活世界保持在一段距离的技术中获取我们的基本真理。这本书颠覆了这种距离，吸引读者更深入地了解他们的动物感官，以便从内在探索身体与呼吸着的地球之间的元素亲缘关系。

乌鸦的变形，重力的性感，雷声的雄辩，可食用的乐趣，这些都在亚伯兰的调查中占有一席之地。他指出，从人类动物觉醒的角度来看，意识（或思想）不是我们物种的专属财产，而是生物圈本身的一种清晰品质——我们与橡树和蜘蛛一起，稳步参与其中。

以其大胆的眼光和明快的散文，《成为动物》为人类评价我们的整体地位树立了一个新的基准。（WYL)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 大卫•亚伯兰是一位生态学家、人类学家和哲学家，他在世界各地演讲。他是《感官的符咒》的作者，并因此获得了兰南文学奖的非小说奖；他关于环境动荡的文化原因和后果的论文发表在许多杂志、学术期刊和选集上。大卫是野生伦理联盟（AWE）的联合创始人和董事。他和家人住在落基山脉南部的山脚下。

David Abram is an ecologist, anthropologist, and philosopher who lectures widely around the world. He is the author of The Spell of the Sensuous, for which he received a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction; his essays on the cultural causes and consequences of environmental turmoil are published in numerous magazines, scholarly journals, and anthologies. David is co-founder and Director of the Alliance for Wild Ethics (AWE). He lives with his family in the foothills of the southern Rockies.

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