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- catalog abstract "[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.".
- catalog contributor b9023875.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-312) and index.".
- catalog description "The ecology of magic, a personal introduction to the inquiry -- Philosophy on the way to ecology, a technical introduction to the inquiry -- The flesh of language -- Animism and the alphabet -- In the landscape of language -- Time, space, and the eclipse of the earth -- The forgetting and remembering of the air -- Coda, turning inside out.".
- catalog 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.".
- catalog extent "xii, 326 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Spell of the sensuous.".
- catalog identifier "067943819X".
- catalog isFormatOf "Spell of the sensuous.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Pantheon Books,".
- catalog relation "Spell of the sensuous.".
- catalog subject "128 20".
- catalog subject "BD581 .A25 1996".
- catalog subject "Human body (Philosophy)".
- catalog subject "Human ecology.".
- catalog subject "Perception (Philosophy)".
- catalog subject "Philosophy of nature.".
- catalog subject "Sense (Philosophy)".
- catalog tableOfContents "The ecology of magic, a personal introduction to the inquiry -- Philosophy on the way to ecology, a technical introduction to the inquiry -- The flesh of language -- Animism and the alphabet -- In the landscape of language -- Time, space, and the eclipse of the earth -- The forgetting and remembering of the air -- Coda, turning inside out.".
- catalog title "The spell of the sensuous : perception and language in a more-than-human world / David Abram.".
- catalog type "text".