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    <![CDATA[The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World]]>
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    <![CDATA[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 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 passion and intellectual daring.<br/><p><br/>&quot;Long awaited, revolutionary...This book ponders the violent disconnection of the body from the natural world and what this means about how we live and die in it.&quot;--Los Angeles Times</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Abrams is incredibly adept at rolling language, the landscape, magic and sexy breathing life into ...philosophy? Phenomenology is the most intelligent philosophical notion I have ever come across. Abrams' translates the writings of Marleau Ponty and reminds us of our responsibilities to the cycle of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21603439">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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