Technic and magic : the reconstruction of reality /

• Main Author: Campagna, Federico (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London : Bloomsbury, 2018.
• Subjects: Γνώση, Θεωρία της; Πραγματικότητα (Φιλοσοφία); Μαγεία; Μεταφυσική; Τεχνολογία και πολιτισμός

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 co...

Table of Contents:

• Preface : 'the keymaker' / by Timothy Morton
• Introduction
• 1. Technic's world. Crisis of reality ; Technic ; Measure and infinity ; No outside ; Crisis of action, crisis of imagination
• 2. Technic's cosmogony. Defining terms ; First hypostasis : absolute language ; Second hypostasis : measure ; Third hypostasis : unit ; Fourth hypostasis : abstract general entity ; Fifth hypostasis : life as vulnerability ; Upper and lower limits : ego absconditus and double affirmation ; Conclusion
• Intermission : what is reality? Between India and the West ; Why seek reality?
• 3. Magic's cosmogony. Defining terms ; First hypostasis : the ineffable as life ; Second hypostasis : person ; Third hypostasis : symbol ; Fourth hypostasis : meaning ; Fifth hypostasis : paradox ; Upper and lower limits : double negation and Deus absconditus ; Conclusion
• 4. Magic's world. Outside within ; Secret ; Initiation ; As if ; Happy ending.