Two excerpts from the book by American ecophilosopher David Abram The Magic of the Senses / Perception and Language in a More Than Human World (DharmaGaia, Prague 2013): the first excerpt “Animism and the Alphabet” is from the 4th chapter of the same name (pp. 154-155, 163-164); the second excerpt “What a Mystery Air Is” is from the last 7th chapter of Remembering Air (pp. 271-273, pp. 310-313). Translated by Michaela Melechovská and Jiří…
Day: October 29, 2021
Border Patrol: An Interview with David Abram
This interview by Jeremy Hayward with American ecophilosopher David Abram about his book The Spell of the Sensuous (Pantheon Books, New York 1996; in Czech Kozlo smyslů. DhramaGaia 2013) was originally published under the title “The Boundary Keeper” in the magazine Shambhala Sun (May 1997). It was first printed in Czech in an abridged version in the cultural weekly A2 (19 / 7.5. 2008) and was subsequently published…