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May 22, 2023 1 hr 15 min

David Abram: A Shadowed, Exquisite, Holy World

from A Wild and Beautiful World Hosted by Emily Johnston

"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. ________ If you enjoy these conversations, please make sure to subscribe, and leave a review if you can! I'm committed to making this free and ad-free, but will happily accept donations; if you can easily support it, please do, at glow.fm/awabw. ________ Many thanks to Hank Lentfer for the use of his gorgeous nature sounds, and to Lindsay Jaeger for the cover art.

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