David Abram: A Shadowed, Exquisite, Holy World

"It's about being a part of, and participant in, a world that is shot through with loss, predation, grief, and yet it's all that shadowed difficulty that also makes this world so exquisitely beautiful, so holy."

Cultural ecologist, geophilosopher, and performance artist David Abram is the author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology and The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World. Described as "revolutionary" by the Los Angeles Times, and as “daring” and “truly original” by the journal Science, his work has helped to catalyze several new disciplines, including ecopsychology. For the current academic year, Abram is the Senior Visiting Scholar in Ecology and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University.

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Many thanks to Hank Lentfer for the use of his gorgeous nature sounds, and to Lindsay Jaeger for the cover art.