Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
by David Abram
Vintage Books, New York, New York, 2010 315 pages
The chapters that follow strive to discern and perhaps to practice a curious kind of thought, a way of careful reflection that no longer tears us out of the world of direct experience in order to represent it, but that binds us ever more deeply into the thick of that world. A way of thinking enacted as much by the body as by the mind, informed by the humid air and the soil and the quality of our breathing, by the intensity of our contact with the other bodies that surround. . . But what if meaningful speech is not an exclusively human possession? What if the very language we now speak arose first in response to an animate, expressive world—as a stuttering reply not just to others of the same species but to an enigmatic cosmos that already spoke to us in a myriad of tongues? (p. 3)
-- quote submitted by Maura S.
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