The Wakeful World: Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature
by Emma Restall Orr
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages313 pages
ISBN
9781780994086
Published
2012
Description
Over the past few hundred years, animism has been dismissed as a primitive, naive and irrational perspective, irrelevant within the civilised west. In the wakeful world, Emma Restall Orr argues that this is based on the ...Over the past few hundred years, animism has been dismissed as a primitive, naive and irrational perspective, irrelevant within the civilised west. In the wakeful world, Emma Restall Orr argues that this is based on the misrepresentation, drawn in crayon, that each tree and stone has its own christian-like immortal soul.