The Wakeful World: Animism, Consciousness, and Selfhood in Nature – Paperback

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by Emma Restall Orr (Author)

Over the past few hundred years, animism has been dismissed as a primitive, naive and irrational perspective, relevant perhaps amongst tribal peoples but not within the intellectual arenas of the civilized West. In this book, the author argues that this is based on the misrepresentation that each tree and stone has its own immortal soul.

Number of Pages: 225 Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN Publication Date: November 30, 2012

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