{"product_id":"sensoria-attending-to-the-wonder-and-vitality-of-nature-9798991427937","title":"Sensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning gathering of creative nonfiction, research, and poetry, \u003ci\u003eSensoria\u003c\/i\u003e will broaden the moral imaginations of its readers and challenge conventional worldviews about human relations to the nonhuman world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHumans, along with all other creatures, are an entanglement of sensual relations, shaping and shaped by our somatic engagement with the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays and poetry of \u003ci\u003eSensoria\u003c\/i\u003e transport readers into compelling stories and ethical reflections that stretch the limits of the moral imagination, calling attention to the wondrous ways in which humans and other-than-human beings experience and perceive the world, not just through the senses but within them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy exploring the sensorium among all forms of life endowed with different kinds of consciousness and communicative abilities, this volume highlights ecologically and socially diverse ways of touching the world with mind, and touching mind with the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sensory faculties are inherently about the capability of paying attention to other beings and forces that share our planet and whose lives are interwoven with our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor each of the five senses, the contributors to \u003ci\u003eSensoria\u003c\/i\u003e--including music composer David Rothenberg, historian of color Carolyn Purnell, bio-philosopher Andreas Weber, filmmaker Kalyanee Mam, neuroethologist Bill Hansson, travel writer and novelist Nick Hunt, and religious scholar Graham Harvey--explore and illuminate the biology and neurology of sensation as well as the imaginative possibilities for understanding the senses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis timely volume offers readers new ways of understanding relations in everyday encounters that link our inner and outer awareness--embodied experiences that shape what we see, hear, touch, taste, and smell, and the way these perceptions can help us to attend more closely and respectfully to the lifeworlds of other-than-human creatures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gavin Van Horn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Humans \u0026amp; Nature Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798991427937\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBruce Jennings is Developmental Editor of Humans \u0026amp; Nature Press Books and Senior Fellow at the Center for Humans \u0026amp; Nature. He is on the faculty of Vanderbilt University in the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and in the Department of Health Policy. He is a Fellow of The Hastings Center, where he was on the research staff from 1980-2006 and served as Executive Vice President from 1991 through 1999. He has published widely on ethical and social issues in hospital treatment decision making, palliative care, and hospice. He was the co-founder of the Decisions Near the End of Life\" program, an educational and practice change program that was conducted in over 200 hospitals in 20 states from 1990-1996. Jennings has been a leader in ethics research and education in the field of public health. He was on the faculty of the School of Public Health at Yale University and worked on ethics education with the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. In 2019 he received a lifetime achievement award from the American Public Health Association for his work in public health ethics. He has written or edited over thirty books, including \u003ci\u003eEcological Governance: Toward a New Social Contract with the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e. More about Bruce and his work can be found at https: \/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/brucejennings\/about-me\/ \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDr. Gavin Van Horn is the executive editor of Humans \u0026amp; Nature Press Books, the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Way of Coyote\u003c\/i\u003e, and the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eCity Creatures: Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWildness: Relations of People and Place\u003c\/i\u003e, the award-winning five-volume series \u003ci\u003eKinship: Belonging in a World of Relations\u003c\/i\u003e, and the five-volume series \u003ci\u003eElementals\u003c\/i\u003e. He currently resides in the ancestral lands of the Northern Chumash people in San Luis Obispo, California, where you can find him wandering the nearby hills and shores, senses awakened by sage, hummingbirds, and ocean air. More about Gavin and his work can be found at www.storyforager.com. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poetry editor for the volume, Heather Swan, PhD, is a poet and nonfiction writer. Her most recent collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eDandelion\u003c\/i\u003e, was released from Terrapin Books in 2023. Her first poetry book, \u003ci\u003eA Kinship with Ash\u003c\/i\u003e (Terrapin Books), published in 2020, was a finalist for both the ASLE Book Award and the Julie Suk Award. Her book \u003ci\u003eWhere Honeybees Thrive\u003c\/i\u003e (Penn State Press) won the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award. A companion book, \u003ci\u003eWhere the Grass Still Sings: Stories of Insects and Interconnection\u003c\/i\u003e, was just released in May 2024. Her nonfiction has appeared in such journals as \u003ci\u003eThe Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEmergence\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMinding Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She has been the recipient of the August Derleth Poetry Award, the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Best Chapbook Award, the Martha Meier Renk Fellowship in Poetry at UW Madison, and an Illinois Arts Council Poetry Fellowship Award. She teaches environmental literature and writing at UW Madison.\"\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Gavin Van Horn \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48944153002141,"sku":"9798991427937","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_d62ddd8a-f2f0-4419-95e3-0a2a4c2c3a68.jpg?v=1790154292","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/sensoria-attending-to-the-wonder-and-vitality-of-nature-9798991427937","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}