David Abram was born on June 24,1957 and is an American ecologist and philosopher best known for his work bridging the philosophical tradition of phenomenology with environmental and ecological issues.
11 Facts About David Abram
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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, for which he received the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction.
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In 1996 David Abram coined the phrase "the more-than-human world" as a way of referring to earthly nature ; the term was gradually adopted by other scholars, theorists, and activists, and has become a key phrase within the lingua franca of the broad ecological movement.
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David Abram is currently Senior Visiting Scholar in Ecology and Natural Philosophy at Harvard Divinity School.
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David Abram received a doctorate for this work from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, in 1993.
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Since 1996, David Abram has lectured and taught at universities throughout the world, while nonetheless maintaining his independence from the institutional world of academe.
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David Abram was named by the Utne Reader as one of a hundred visionaries currently transforming the world, and profiled in the 2007 book, Visionaries: The 20th Century's 100 Most Inspirational Leaders.
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David Abram's ideas have often been debated within the pages of various peer-reviewed academic journals, including Environmental Ethics, Environmental Values and the Journal of Environmental Philosophy In 2001, the New England Aquarium and the Orion Society sponsored a large public debate between Abram and distinguished biologist E O Wilson, at the old Town Hall in Boston, on science and ethics.
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In 2010 David Abram published Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology, which was the sole runner-up for the inaugural PEN Edward O Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing, and a finalist for the 2011 Orion Book Award.
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David Abram weaves a spell that brings the world alive before your very eyes.
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David Abram teaches a weeklong intensive each summer on Cortes Island, in British Columbia.