Jiří Zemánek: Between the human body and the breathing earth – about the books The Magic of the Senses and Becoming an Animal by David Abram

David Abram (reprophoto)

“Becoming the earth. Becoming an animal. And becoming – in this way – fully human.” David Abram The first book by American philosopher, ecologist and visionary David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous (1996; Czech: Kouzlo smyslů, DharmaGaia 2013) has been hailed as a groundbreaking work of ecological philosophy and ethics that magically overturns the dichotomies between culture and nature, between…