The spell of the sensuous
Subtitle: perception and language in a more-than-human world
By: David Abram
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780679776390
Subjects: Human ecology; Wahrnehmung; Sense (Philosophy); Philosophy of nature; Perception (Philosophy); Human body (Philosophy); Humanökologie; Körper; Naturphilosophie; Natuurfilosofie; Philosophie
Description: [In this book, the author] 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 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-312) and index.
Table of contents: title: The ecology of magic, a personal introduction to the inquiry; title: Philosophy on the way to ecology, a technical introduction to the inquiry; title: The flesh of language; title: Animism and the alphabet; title: In the landscape of language; title: Time, space, and the eclipse of the earth; title: The forgetting and remembering of the air; title: Coda, turning inside out.