http://anthropik.com/2005/02/a-philosophy-of-clustering/ se wo were fi na wosan kofa a yenki Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:40:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://anthropik.com/2005/02/a-philosophy-of-clustering/#comment-29522 A Brief Summary of Animism (The Anthropik Network) Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:01:43 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2005/02/a-philosophy-of-clustering/#comment-29522 [...] Summarizing Abram's Spell of the Sensuous is a difficult task. Not since Ishmael have my thoughts been so turned upside-down by a book. Abram fully understands the powerful magic of language, and uses it to full effect in this volume, as he uses it to show us that magic itself. Along the way, Abram offers a stunning and authoritative answer to Zerzan's critique of language by showing us that language is not an arbitrary abstraction at all, but firmly rooted in our ecology. To begin a summary of Abram's book, it may be easiest to work backwards from the starting point of Western philosophy, for as Alfred Whitehead (we've discussed one of his pithy aphorisms before) put it, "The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." [...] […] Summarizing Abram’s Spell of the Sensuous is a difficult task. Not since Ishmael have my thoughts been so turned upside-down by a book. Abram fully understands the powerful magic of language, and uses it to full effect in this volume, as he uses it to show us that magic itself. Along the way, Abram offers a stunning and authoritative answer to Zerzan’s critique of language by showing us that language is not an arbitrary abstraction at all, but firmly rooted in our ecology. To begin a summary of Abram’s book, it may be easiest to work backwards from the starting point of Western philosophy, for as Alfred Whitehead (we’ve discussed one of his pithy aphorisms before) put it, “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” […]

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