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David Abram - cultural ecologist, geophilosopher, and performance artist - is the author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology (Pantheon, 2010), and The Spell. Thousands of Powerful Spells for Any Need. David Abram's writing has itself a beauty seldom found. The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by Abram, David and a great selection of similar Used, New and Collectible Books. Anyone who calls themselves an Animist should have. David Abram about the Spell of the Sensuous - the rise of alphabetic literacy and our estrangement from nature. The NOOK Book (eBook) of the The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram at Barnes & Noble.

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When Abram published his book The Spell of the Sensuous in 1996, the reviewers practically exhausted their superlatives in praise of it. Spell Of The Sensuous by David Abram, 9780679776390, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. David Abram is an ecologist, anthropologist, and philosopher who lectures and teaches widely around the world. David Abram. (This chapter excerpt is from David Abram's Spell of the Sensuous). Though he worked as a magician in the United States and When Abram published his book The Spell of the Sensuous in 1996, the reviewers practically exhausted their superlatives in praise of it. David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language In a More-Than-Human World.

What will it take for us to recover a sustaining relation with the breathing earth? These are the great questions at the heart of David Abram's The Spell of the Sensuous. The natural world becomes an object of (progressively more abstract) study rather than the sensuously experienced root and locus of all being An accomplished sleight-of-hand magician as well as a gifted philosopher, David Abram has lived and traded magic with indigenous sorcerers on several continents. David Abram is an unusual combination of anthropologist, philosopher and sleight-of-hand magician.

Philosopher and ecologist Abram writes an absorbing, challenging treatise on the power of written language to separate human beings from their experiential. Abram argues that the realm of direct experience has come to be seen as a secondary, derivative dimension of the "realer" world of quantifiable and measureable scientific "facts." True. David Abram (This chapter excerpt is from David Abram's Spell of the Sensuous) Late one evening, I stepped out of my little hut in the. David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language In a More-Than-Human World. In The Spell of the Sensuous David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished. Visit Amazon.com's David Abram Page and shop for all David Abram books.

Late one evening, I stepped out of my little hut in the rice paddies of eastern Bali and found myself falling through space.