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A review by ranprieur
Becoming Animal by David Abram
4.0
A few hundred pages of above average poetic language and occasional philosophical arguments to help the reader reframe reality: the world is not a remote lifeless place that we understand through mental abstractions, but a living thing in which we participate through sense experience.
If you want to learn this, but you struggle with it, you might have to read the whole book. I've read other books with the same idea, like Abram's [b:The Spell of the Sensuous|48582|The Spell of the Sensuous Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World|David Abram|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1403170494s/48582.jpg|915422], and Morris Berman's [b:The Reenchantment of the World|486977|The Reenchantment of the World|Morris Berman|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347699438s/486977.jpg|475257] and [b:Coming to Our Senses|56982|Coming to Our Senses Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West|Morris Berman|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1266461509s/56982.jpg|55510], so I got the idea after a few chapters and skimmed the rest.
The nice thing about this book is that the long descriptions of sense experience might inspire you to actually practice seeing the world differently.
If you want to learn this, but you struggle with it, you might have to read the whole book. I've read other books with the same idea, like Abram's [b:The Spell of the Sensuous|48582|The Spell of the Sensuous Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World|David Abram|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1403170494s/48582.jpg|915422], and Morris Berman's [b:The Reenchantment of the World|486977|The Reenchantment of the World|Morris Berman|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347699438s/486977.jpg|475257] and [b:Coming to Our Senses|56982|Coming to Our Senses Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West|Morris Berman|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1266461509s/56982.jpg|55510], so I got the idea after a few chapters and skimmed the rest.
The nice thing about this book is that the long descriptions of sense experience might inspire you to actually practice seeing the world differently.