The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

Abram, David

ISBN 10: 0679776397 / ISBN 13: 9780679776390

Published by Vintage, 1997

About this Item

Acceptable reading copy. Cover has wear including a nick in the spine area. Pages are good. Several pages have a light storage crease in the upper corner.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679776397
• ISBN 13: 9780679776390
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 10 ounces

About this title

Synopsis

Describes the influence of spoken and written language and rational thinking on humankind''s perception of the natural world and on the physical interaction with nature. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

About the Author

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.