Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality - Couverture souple

Campagna, Federico

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1350044024 ISBN 13 : 9781350044029

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Synopsis

We 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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Federico Campagna is a young Italian philosopher based in London. His latest books with Bloomsbury are Otherworlds: Mediterranean lessons on escaping History (2025), Prophetic Culture: Recreation for adolescents (2021), and Technic and Magic: The reconstruction of reality (2018).

He is associate fellow at the Warburg Institute, lecturer and tutor at the Royal College of Art, and has lectured in international universities and academies around the world.

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University, USA. They are the author of 16 books, including Being Ecological (2018) and Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (2017), and 200 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food. www.ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com @the_eco_thought

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1350044024
• ISBN 13: 9781350044029
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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