Vintage The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

Very much enjoying this fascinating book!

Lo he leido y compartido, he regalado 6 y a todos Les encanta

This book has a lot of big words and quite a lot of repetition. However, the theory david Abram propounds is highly original. it doesnt talk down to the reader, is probably taken from his master thesis.It is an in depth descrition of the state humanity has found itself in, from a really unusual perspective.The natural language of the Earth arround us, and the way indigenous languages have always spoken from within their relationship with the specifics of locaction is something he experienced firsthand. He traces how we have lost that connection, as our language has used artificial means through which to communicate. he traced the breath based script of Hebrew, and later developments, so the point where modern humans so often communicate via entirely electronic medium, and the dire effects this has had, in terms of disconnect from the natural world. We forget that our existence is housed in an "animal" body. Afascinating read.

Sehr gute Analyse von der Beziehung des Menschen zur Natur.

This is an important, possibly vitally important work. It is eye-opening and thought-provoking. The author's main theme - the intimacy with nature experienced by preliterate societies and its loss in literate ones - is nigh impossible effectively to convey in words, especially the written word (as emphasised by the author), or even to oneself in thought, as the moment one tries to do so the matter abstracts itself from that which is experienced. The author makes valient efforts and the reader does get from this an intellectual understanding of his proposition. But he uses far too many words, repeats himself endlessly (and without much variety in expression). A book a third of the length would have been more elegant, more effective, better. In his postscript to this twentieth anniversary edition, the author seems a little too assured of the noteworthiness and literary merit of his work. But read my first sentence again, then read the book.