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: Soft cover
Condition: Good

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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.

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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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