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Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality

Autor Federico Campagna Prefață de Prof. Timothy Morton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 mai 2018
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350044029
ISBN-10: 1350044024
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Innovatively structured, each section on technology in the first half is mirrored by an equivalent yet opposite one on magic in the second. The first part on Technic will use almost exclusively Western philosophical references, the second part on Magic will rest mainly on a triad of Iranian (Shi'a), Indian (specifically Vedanta) and Mediterranean (Hermetic) references

Notă biografică

Federico Campagna is an Italian philosopher based in London. He is the author of The Last Night: anti-Work, Atheism, Adventure (2013) and What We Are Fighting For: a Radical Collective Manifesto (2012) and visiting lecturer at Royal College of Art, UK.

Cuprins

PREFACE, 'The Keymaker' by Timothy Morton

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE - TECHNIC'S WORLD
- Crisis of Reality
- Technic
- Measure and Infinity
- No Outside
- Crisis of Action, Crisis of Imagination

CHAPTER TWO - TECHNIC'S COSMOGONY
- Defining Terms
- 1 Absolute Language
- 2 Measure
- 3 Unit
- 4 Abstract General Entity
- 5 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?

CHAPTER THREE - MAGIC'S COSMOGONY
- Defining Terms
- 1 The Ineffable as Life
- 2 Person
- 3 Symbol
- 4 Meaning
- 5 Paradox
- Upper and Lower Limits: Double Negation and Deus Absconditus
- Conclusion

CHAPTER FOUR - MAGIC'S WORLD
- Outside Within
- Secret
- Initiation
- As if
- Happy Ending

Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

Federico Campagna's book is a brilliant tour de force that oscillates between lucid analyses of philosophical concepts, bridging the gap between Eastern and Western frameworks, and radical propositions for alternative worlds. By attempting to galvanize human perception out of its paralyzed and bordered state, what William Blake refers to as 'the narrow chinks of [our] cavern', Campagna expertly unravels the very foundations upon which our contemporary reality sits. Technic and Magic gradually builds towards a new and striking reconfiguration of reality that merges together the past, present and future.
Federico Campagna's brilliant Technic and Magic is essential reading for our desperate times. This stunning historical and philosophical exploration radically transforms our understanding of the global technological culture we now inhabit.
Both Technic and Magic are used by us to change the world. However, as Frederico Campagna argues, Technic serves the accumulation of power whereas Magic, on the contrary, protects life and its value. In his fascinating book Campagna makes a parcours through the Indian, Islamic and old Gnostic sources to discover the hidden, hermetic tradition of magical thinking that keeps its relevance also for our contemporary condition.
Campagna takes us on a philosophically rich journey that is signposted by new terms and concepts discussed with due reference to other philosophical settings, including as they developed in Persia. His engaging prose promises to make a distinct contribution to emerging fields of knowledge.
This is a book not only for philosophers but also for poets and their readers and for all those who try to uphold the dignity of their spiritual existence. Is magic still a liveable territory? Federico Campagna asks fundamental questions but also has original suggestions how to keep this high flame alive in a radically non-magical world.
Campagna breaks with tradition by advancing scholarship that explores a common past and common understandings of meta-philosophical concepts, crossing the geopolitical barriers between the East and the West. Rarely does one see such ability to discuss complex, metaphysical and philosophic themes in a light and poetic manner - Outstanding.