The Spell of the Sensuous
Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
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- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
14 March 1997
Summary
Winner of the International Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
Animal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us. This major work of ecological philosophy startles the senses out of habitual ways of perception.
For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider communit…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679776390 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679776397 |
| Author: | David Abram |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 14 March 1997 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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About The Author
David Abram
David Abram, Ph.D., is an ecologist and philosopher whose writings have had a deepening influence upon the environmental movement in North America and abroad. A summa cum laude graduate of Wesleyan University, he holds a doctorate in philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and has been the recipient of fellowships from the Watson and Rockefeller Foundations and a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction. He is an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician and has lived and traded magic with indigenous magicians in Indonesia, Nepal, and the Americas.
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