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The Spell of the Sensuous (opens the original)
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If you were to look at the few marginalia I entered in my copy of David Abram’s remarkable book The Spell of the Sensuous, you would think I found the author’s claims intolerable, and you would find little indication that I loved the book as much as I did. And yet I did love it; it was one of the most inspiring pieces of philosophy I’ve read in years. And yet I also found many of its claims—including the central thesis—in turn unconvincing, absurd, or provoking. That I still loved it indicates j
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