"(...) David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician to reveal the suble dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception and excavates the sensual foundations of langage, wich - event at it most abstract - echoes the calls and cries of the earth. On every page of this lyrical work, Abram weaves his arguments with a passion, a precision and a intellectual daring the recall such writers as Loren Eiseley, Annie Dillard and Barry Lopez"--P.[4] de la couv.
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