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020			_a9781350044029 _qpaperback
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100	1		_aCampagna, Federico. _929942
245	1	0	_aTechnic and magic : _bthe reconstruction of reality _cFederico Campagna.
260			_aLondon: _bBloomsbury Academic, _c2023.
300			_axii, 256 pages ; _c22 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [235]-245 and index.
505	0	0	_aMachine generated contents note: _g1. _tTechnic's world -- _tCrisis of reality -- _tTechnic -- _tMeasure and infinity -- _tNo outside -- _tCrisis of action, crisis of imagination -- _g2. _tTechnic's cosmogony -- _tDefining terms -- _tFirst hypostasis: Absolute language -- _tSecond hypostasis: Measure -- _tThird hypostasis: Unit -- _tFourth hypostasis: Abstract general entity -- _tFifth hypostasis: Life as vulnerability -- _tUpper and lower limits: Ego absconditus and double affirmation -- _tConclusion -- _tIntermission -- What is reality? -- _tBetween India and the West -- _tWhy seek reality? -- _g3. _tMagic's cosmogony -- _tDefining terms -- _tFirst hypostasis: The ineffable as life -- _tSecond hypostasis: Person -- _tThird hypostasis: Symbol -- _tFourth hypostasis: Meaning -- _tFifth hypostasis: Paradox -- _tUpper and lower limits: Double negation and Deus absconditus -- _tConclusion -- _g4. _tMagic's world -- _tOutside within -- _tSecret -- _tInitiation -- _tAs if -- _tHappy ending.
520	8		_aWe take for granted that only certain kind of things exist - electrons but not angels, passports but not nymphs. This is what we understand as `reality'. But in fact, `reality' varies with each era of the world, in turn shaping the field of what is possible to do, think and imagine. Our contemporary age has embraced a troubling and painful form of reality: Technic. Under Technic, the foundations of reality begin to crumble, shrinking the field of the possible and freezing our lives in an anguished state of paralysis. Technic and Magic shows that the way out of the present deadlock lies much deeper than debates on politics or economics. By drawing from an array of Northern and Southern sources - spanning from Heidegger, Junger and Stirner's philosophies, through Pessoa's poetry, to Advaita Vedanta, Bhartrhari, Ibn Arabi, Suhrawardi and Mulla Sadra's theosophies - Magic is presented as an alternative system of reality to Technic. While Technic attempts to capture the world through an `absolute language', Magic centres its reconstruction of the world around the notion of the `ineffable' that lies at the heart of existence. Technic and Magic is an original philosophical work, and a timely cultural intervention. It disturbs our understanding of the structure of reality, while restoring it in a new form. This is possibly the most radical act: if we wish to change our world, first we have to change the idea of `reality' that defines it.
530			_aAlso available in electronic format.
650		0	_aKnowledge, Theory of. _929943
650		0	_aReality. _929944
650		0	_aMagic. _929945
650		0	_aMetaphysics. _929946
650		0	_aTechnology and civilization. _929947
650		7	_aKnowledge, Theory of. _2fast _929943
650		7	_aMagic. _2fast _929945
650		7	_aMetaphysics. _2fast _929946
650		7	_aReality. _2fast _929944
650		7	_aTechnology and civilization. _2fast _929947
776	0	8	_iElectronic version: _aCampagna, Federico. _tTechnic and magic. _dLondon : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 _z9781350044036 _w(OCoLC)1030625070
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