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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
David Abram
Synopsis "The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World"
Winner of the International Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction Animal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us. This major work of ecological philosophy startles the senses out of habitual ways of perception. For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people with other animals, plants, and natural objects (including mountains, rivers, winds, and weather patters) that we have only lately come to think of as "inanimate." How, then, did humans come to sever their ancient reciprocity with the natural world? What will it take for us to recover a sustaining relation with the breathing earth? In The Spell of the Sensuous 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 of 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 at its most abstract--echoes the calls and cries of the earth. On every page of this lyrical work, Abram weaves his arguments with a passion, a precision, and an intellectual daring that recall such writers as Loren Eisleley, Annie Dillard, and Barry Lopez.
Ecologista cultural, geofilósofo y artista de performance. Descrito como "revolucionario" por Los Angeles Times, "atrevido" y "verdaderamente original" por la revista Science, el trabajo de David ha ayudado a catalizar el surgimiento de varias disciplinas nuevas, incluido el floreciente campo de la ecopsicología. Sus ensayos sobre las causas y consecuencias culturales del desorden ambiental se publican en numerosas revistas, diarios académicos y antologías. David, que recibió varias becas y premios, incluido el Premio Literario Internacional Lannan de No Ficción, ocupó recientemente la Cátedra Internacional Arne Naess en Justicia Global y Ecología en la Universidad de Oslo en Noruega. Actualmente es académico visitante senior en Ecología y Filosofía Natural en la Universidad de Harvard. Miembro del Schumacher College de Inglaterra, David es fundador y director creativo de Alliance for Wild Ethics (AWE).
