An excerpt from David Abram's book Becoming an Animal – Earthly Cosmology (HOST, Brno 2024), from the final thirteenth chapter “Conclusion / In the Heart of the Heart of the World” (pp. 347-354); translation: Jiří Zemánek. According to a story that was once passed down in various forms among numerous indigenous peoples around the world — among Aboriginal elders in Australia and indigenous storytellers in North America, among the ancient Maya…
Day: January 21, 2024
David Abram: The Language of Things
David Abram is a leading American ecophilosopher, storyteller, visionary, and one of America's finest nature writers. In his work, which addresses critical environmental and ecological issues today, he combines the philosophical tradition of phenomenology with the rich lessons of the animist worldview of indigenous cultures. He is the author of The Spell of the Sensuous (1996; Czech: Kouzlo smyslů, DharmaGaia 2013) and Becoming Animal…