The spell of the sensuous
About this book
[In this book, the author] 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 subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception and excavates the sensual foundations of language, which - even at its most abstract - echoes the calls and cries of the earth.
Subjects
- body, human (philosophy)
- corps humain (philosophie)
- écologie humaine
- human body (philosophy)
- human ecology
- humanism
- humanökologie
- kognition
- körper
- movements
- natur
- naturphilosophie
- natuurfilosofie
- perception
- perception (philosophie)
- perception (philosophy)
- philosophie
- philosophie de la nature
- philosophy
- philosophy of nature
- sense (philosophy)
- sensibilité (philosophie)
- sprache
- wahrnehmung