Snyder
“This book by David Abram lights up the landscape of language, flesh, mind, history, mapping us back into the world.”
—Gary Snyder, author of Mountains and Rivers Without End
“This book by David Abram lights up the landscape of language, flesh, mind, history, mapping us back into the world.”
—Gary Snyder, author of Mountains and Rivers Without End
Macy
“A masterpiece—combining poetic passion with intellectual rigor and daring. Electric with energy, it offers us a new approach to scholarly inquiry: as a fully embodied human animal. It opens pathways and vistas that will be fruitfully explored for years, indeed for generations, to come.”
—Joanna Macy, translator of Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Book of Hours
“A masterpiece—combining poetic passion with intellectual rigor and daring. Electric with energy, it offers us a new approach to scholarly inquiry: as a fully embodied human animal. It opens pathways and vistas that will be fruitfully explored for years, indeed for generations, to come.”
—Joanna Macy, translator of Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Book of Hours
Norman
“This is a major work of research and intuitive brilliance, an archive of clear ideas. At the end of our century of precarious ecology, The Spell of the Sensuous strikes the deepest notes of celebration and alertness—an indispensable book!”
—Howard Norman, author of The Bird Artist
“This is a major work of research and intuitive brilliance, an archive of clear ideas. At the end of our century of precarious ecology, The Spell of the Sensuous strikes the deepest notes of celebration and alertness—an indispensable book!”
—Howard Norman, author of The Bird Artist
Shambhala Sun
“Abram manages, almost magically, to stir in us a long-lost memory: deep in our bones, in our blood, in the air we breathe, we know that the world lives and speaks to us.… He shows that it is possible to reawaken the animistic dimension of perception and feeling without renouncing rationality and intellectual analysis.… A joy to read and a brilliant gift to our rapidly darkening world.”
—Shambhala Sun
“Abram manages, almost magically, to stir in us a long-lost memory: deep in our bones, in our blood, in the air we breathe, we know that the world lives and speaks to us.… He shows that it is possible to reawaken the animistic dimension of perception and feeling without renouncing rationality and intellectual analysis.… A joy to read and a brilliant gift to our rapidly darkening world.”
—Shambhala Sun
McKibben
“This is a landmark book. Scholars will doubtless recognize its brilliance, but they may overlook the most important part of Abram’s achievement: he has written the best instruction manual yet for becoming fully human. I walked outside when I was done and the world was a different place.”
—Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature
“This is a landmark book. Scholars will doubtless recognize its brilliance, but they may overlook the most important part of Abram’s achievement: he has written the best instruction manual yet for becoming fully human. I walked outside when I was done and the world was a different place.”
—Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature
Hillman
“Abram’s Spell must be praised. It’s so well done, well written, well thought. I know of no work more valuable for shifting our thinking and feeling about the place of humans in the world.”
—James Hillman, author of The Soul’s Code
“Abram’s Spell must be praised. It’s so well done, well written, well thought. I know of no work more valuable for shifting our thinking and feeling about the place of humans in the world.”
—James Hillman, author of The Soul’s Code
Village Voice
“Forges a thoroughly articulate passage between science and mysticism.… Speculative, learned, and always ‘lucid and precise’ as the eye of the vulture that confronted him once on a cliff ledge, Abram has one of those rare minds which, like the mind of a musician or a great mathematician, fuses dreaminess with smarts.”
—Village Voice Literary Supplement
“Forges a thoroughly articulate passage between science and mysticism.… Speculative, learned, and always ‘lucid and precise’ as the eye of the vulture that confronted him once on a cliff ledge, Abram has one of those rare minds which, like the mind of a musician or a great mathematician, fuses dreaminess with smarts.”
—Village Voice Literary Supplement