David Abram

David Abram (* June 24, 1957 on Long Iceland, New York) is an American cultural ecologist, philosopher and author. His book The Spell of the Sensuous influenced the American environmental movement significantly. He is the founder and director of the " Alliance for Wild Ethics". He lives in New Mexico.

Life

He grew up in Long Iceland and studied at Wesleyan University. After graduating, he lived with shamans in Indonesia, Nepal and the Americas. In 1993 he received his doctorate from the State University of New York.

Work

Abrams 's work explores the phenomenology of perception, the roots of the ecological crisis, the nature of alienation of modern man - west of Western coinage, and the perception of nature partzipatorischen oral- indigner peoples. His work has been greatly influenced by the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau -Ponty and the Gaia hypothesis James Lovelock; other influences are Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Ivan Illich.

Effect

His award- winning book The Spell of the Sensuous shaped the ecology movement in the U.S. long term. The Utne Reader takes him on as one of the visionaries that change the world today. The German biologist and philosopher Andreas Weber called The Spell of the Sensuous in his book Everything feels as a "milestone ".

Works (selection)

  • The Spell of the Sensuous. Perception and Language in a More -Than - Human World. Vintage Books, New York 1996. Under the spell of the sensuous nature. The art of perception and the more-than- human world. thinkOya, Small Jasedow, 2012.

Essays

  • The Perceptual Implications of Gaia. In: The Ecologist, vol. 15, issue 3 (1985 ) Embraced by Gaia. In: Hagia Chora, 15 ( 2003)
  • Erdgeschichten. In: Oya, 15 ( 2012)
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