Elegant in exposition, vast in implication, this groundbreaking work of ecological philosophy compellingly argues the necessity for restoring humanity's lost connections with the sensuous world. Drawing on disciplines as diverse as phenomenology and sleight-of-hand magic, Abram explains how the processes readers think of as "mental" actually derive from a deeply physical interaction with the rest of nature.
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Elegant in exposition, vast in implication, this groundbreaking work of ecological philosophy compellingly argues the necessity for restoring humanity's lost connections with the sensuous world. Drawing on disciplines as diverse as phenomenology and sleight-of-hand magic, Abram explains how the processes readers think of as "mental" actually derive from a deeply physical interaction with the rest of nature.
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Fair. The book is 100% readable but visibly worn, and damaged. This may include stains, tears, rips, folded pages, binding damage, dents, scuffs, scratches and sticker residue. The book also may contain heavy highlighting and notes. Please ask for photos as our books are donations and may not contain above mentioned defects.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Fifth printing, in the same year as the first. Tall octavo. xii, 326pp. Fine in price-clipped else fine dust jacket. From the library of poet David Ignatow, beautifully Inscribed to him using the full half-title, including a large drawing of a tree and crescent moon: "for David Ignatow, in admiration, and gratitude, and the quiet knowledge that there are ways of speaking that do not break the silence but let the silence itself breathe, let it live...with love, David Abram." Winner of the international Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction. An excellent association and beautiful inscription.
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Spell of the Sensuous had been recommended to me from more than one source over the past 5 years: first, my maverick writing teacher, Andy Coutureir; later, a bay area entrepreneur whose inspiration comes from vision quest work in the California high desert. It makes accessible and practical some of the most important philosophical concepts of the past century--reading it can restore a felt sense of connection and direct understanding of world-we-live-in. Well written and thoroughly reseached, it is a joy and treasure hunt rolled into one.