David Abram

David Abram is the author and first person narrator of Becoming Animal. He has a background in biology, ecology, philosophy, and phenomenology. This diverse range of studies informs his musings on the natural world, and the human's innate need for connection and communion with it. Though Abram possesses a deep knowledge of these aforementioned fields, and of the English language, he maintains that more than his own mind has inspired the theories and assertions contained within Becoming Animal.

Throughout the text, Abram asserts that contemporary culture has distanced the modern individual from other animals and the environment. Though many scientific and technological inventions have benefited humanity, Abram believes that they have also turned the earth into an inanimate object. The individual no longer regards the planet as a living entity. Rather, all of her experience is presented, perceived, and understood through a thicket of disembodying and...