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

DAVID ABRAM

ISBN 10: 0679776397 / ISBN 13: 9780679776390

Published by Vintage March 1997, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (Vintage)
• Publisher: Vintage March 1997
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679776397
• ISBN 13: 9780679776390
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science/Nature

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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.