#10 David Abram: The Spell of the Sensuous, on language and stories

08/03/2023 1h 2min
#10 David Abram: The Spell of the Sensuous, on language and stories

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Episode Synopsis

David Abram is an American cultural ecologist, a philosopher and an activist. He is author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology (2010) and The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World (1996). Grounding his work within the philosophical tradition of phenomenology, he seeks to reanimate our senses, teaching us how we have been shaped in tandem with the more-than-human world, and how by forgetting it we create a profound loss both for ourselves and for the world in which we live. Having taught and lectured all over the world, he is currently Senior Visiting Scholar in Ecology and Natural Philosophy at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University.

Podcast by Lacuna Magazine

Interviewer: Adam Weymouth
Producer and musician: Ulli Mattsson

Further Reading:
Alliance for Wild Ethics
On Being Human in a More-Than-Human World