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Author:

Marvell, Leon.

Title:

Transfigured light : philosophy, cybernetics and the hermetic imaginary / Leon Marvell.

Publisher:

Academica Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xi, 311 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Hermetism

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-298) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: ideal objects and their forebears -- Ideal objects or history in four dimensions -- Ioan P. Couliano -- Continuity-deformation -- Oswald Spengler -- Expanding history : Le Goff, and the paradigm shift -- Hermeticism and the postmodern -- Yates and Kuhn -- A postmodern science -- Figuration and the imaginary -- W.G. Leibniz, Robert Fludd and the metaphysics of light -- Spirit of the beehive : hermetic resonances in cybernetics, AI & cyberspace -- Esoteric machines -- Rarefaction of the imaginary -- The singularity and big numbers -- Virtual mind -- The intelligential and the actual -- Vortices of the hermetic imaginary -- Hour of the swarm -- Hoffmeyer -- Hermetic bio-semiosis -- Bateson -- Serres -- Hermetic informatics -- Negentropy and the intelligential world -- Conclusion -- Body doubles -- Vertigral architectonics : an introduction -- The vertigral index of the subtle body -- Origins of the pneumatic economy -- The subtle body as psychonaut --
A challenge to Cartesian corporeality -- Corporeality and semiosis -- Tantric luciform corporeity -- The celestial nervous system -- Conclusion -- Metaphysical geometry, alien attractors and the shape of the world soul -- The progressivist account of philosophy -- The eclipse of the phantasmic -- The infinite circle -- Hieratic space -- The shape of the anima mundi -- Arbor vitae -- The seven catastrophes of the world -- Conclusion -- The gnostic alchemy of Robert Fludd -- The radiation economy -- Imaginal logic of an ideal object : matter and light -- The philosophical hyle and the metaphysics of light -- Rays and lights : the gnostic alchemy of Truth's golden harrow -- Origins of Fludd's radiation economy -- Hypostaseis of Christ -- Baptismal irradiation -- Neo-mikrokosmos -- Rays and vibrations -- Conclusion -- The gnostic Leibniz, or What is it like to be an atom? -- Leibniz and his times -- Leibniz and alchemy -- Monads and the alien light -- Kabbalistic monads --
Knorr von Rosenroth -- What shape is a monad? -- Kabbalistic canalisation -- Pneumatic fields -- Conclusion.

ISBN:

1933146273
9781933146270

OCLC:

(OCoLC)123119771

LCCN:

2007014513

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)