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Books : The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human Worldby: David Abram
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 Rating:  - wordy, but stick with it, it's worth itThe introduction was enchanting, but I found the first chapter hard; it takes us through the history of perception and makes a tour of how we ended up perceiving the world as we do. But I stuck with it and boy, was it worth it! A hugely satisfying read from a shamanic, esoteric, classical and philosophical view point. After I read it, I put the book down and went outside to experience nature and the world around us from horizon to horizon - literally. I gave it four stars, because although ... Read More Rating:  - Deserving of wider academic readershipAs a classicist I found this little book totally revisoned my understanding of early Greek 'literature.' Traditional approaches to Homer, for example, are usually divided between the radical Parryists (an almost extinct bunch named after Millman Parry) who analyse the poems for formulaic patterns and produce detailed statistical data for occurences and repetitions, and those who rebel against this trend claiming it devalues Homeric poetry. David Abram not only made me realise that Homer must be understood ... Read More Rating: - Breathing the flesh of the landscapeThe main thesis of this book is that the alphabet, or rather, the adaptation of the hebrew alphabet that the greeks effected, is to blame for our current state of separation from nature. However, the real joy about reading the fundamentation of such claim is that David Abram manages to drag you into the animistic view of the world. The way he describes his own experiences is highly poetic. Anyone who has travelled to asia knows what it feels like to be there and the difficulties of comming back to ... Read More Rating: - paying respectReview from Jay Griffiths, author of "Wild: An Elemental Journey" This is one of the rarest, most utterly original books there is, and indeed could ever be. It is written by someone whose soul is that of a magician and poet and whose art is so triumphant with sheer spirit that every sentence is radical and radicalizing. It is a book whose comprehension of the human condition is generous, natural and enormous. It describes the necessity of nature not just for human being but for human thinking; this ... Read More Rating: - its the way he tells it...Its unsurprising that certain 'rationalists' who have unsuspectingly come across this book have had found its 'arguments' 'assumptions' 'assertions' problematic. They are problematic and SHOULD be problematic- the language is pushing at the boundaries, trying to explain what can only really be experienced. At no stage in the book does Abram suggest otherwise. The essential argument is simple- through civilization, writing systems and other forms of logos inspired 'mental technology' we have disconnected ourselves ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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