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David Abram is an American philosopher known for his research in environmental philosophy and philosophy of perception. His works explore the relationship between humans and the natural world, as well as how language, culture, and perception shape our perception of reality.

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“What is magic? In the deepest sense, magic is an experience. It's the experience of finding oneself alive within a world that is itself alive. It is the experience of contact and communication between oneself and something that is profoundly different from oneself: a swallow, a frog, a spider weaving its web.”

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“Does the human intellect, or "reason," really spring us free from our inherence in the depths of this wild proliferation of forms? Or on the contrary, is the human intellect rooted in, and secretly borne by, our forgotten contact with the multiple nonhuman shapes that surround us on every hand?”

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“We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.”

Humans Contact Animism

Book:The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World

Source: The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World

About the Author

Born: June 24, 1957
Known for: Philosopher
Quotes: 31

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