David Abram
David Abram is an American philosopher, cultural ecologist, and performance artist who bridges phenomenology with environmental issues.
He authored The Spell of the Sensuous, which won the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, and Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology.
Abram founded the Alliance for Wild Ethics and contributes essays on ecological topics to publications including Orion, Environmental Ethics, Parabola, and The Ecologist.
Known for his storytelling abilities and background in sleight-of-hand magic, Abram's work emphasizes humanity's sensory relationship with the natural world and advocates for reconnection with earth through direct perception and embodied experience.
