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David Abram is a cultural ecologist and environmental philosopher who lectures and teaches widely. He received a Lannan Literary Award for The Spell of the Sensuous and fellowships from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation. Named by the Utne Reader as one of one hundred visionaries transforming the world, Abram is also an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician who has lived with indigenous magicians and medicine people in Asia and the Americas. He lives in New Mexico.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 25, 1997
Price: $15.00
David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception and excavates the sensual foundations of language, which--even... Read more >
