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04000aam a2200433 i 4500 001 84CC1352462211E9A3F20F6897128E48 003 SILO 005 20190314012734 008 180705t20182018enk b 001 0 eng 020 $a 9781350044012 020 $a 1350044016 020 $a 1350044024 020 $a 9781350044029 035 $a (OCoLC)1042813535 040 $a IQU $b eng $e rda $c IQU $d IQU $d YDX $d IUL $d OCLCF $d U3G $d SILO 050 4 $a BD331 $b .C36 2018 082 04 $a 190 100 1 $a Campagna, Federico, $e author. 245 10 $a Technic and magic : $b the reconstruction of reality / $c Federico Campagna. 264 1 $a London : $b Bloomsbury, $c [2018] 300 $a xii, 256 pages ; $c 22 cm 530 $a Also available in electronic format. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-245 and index. 520 8 $a 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. 505 00 $a Machine generated contents note: $g 4. $t Happy ending. $t Crisis of reality -- $t Technic -- $t Measure and infinity -- $t No outside -- $t Crisis of action, crisis of imagination -- $g 2. $t Technic's cosmogony -- $t Defining terms -- $t First hypostasis: Absolute language -- $t Second hypostasis: Measure -- $t Third hypostasis: Unit -- $t Fourth hypostasis: Abstract general entity -- $t Fifth hypostasis: Life as vulnerability -- $t Upper and lower limits: Ego absconditus and double affirmation -- $t Conclusion -- $t Intermission -- What is reality? -- $t Between India and the West -- $t Why seek reality? -- $g 3. $t Magic's cosmogony -- $t Defining terms -- $t First hypostasis: The ineffable as life -- $t Second hypostasis: Person -- $t Third hypostasis: Symbol -- $t Fourth hypostasis: Meaning -- $t Fifth hypostasis: Paradox -- $t Upper and lower limits: Double negation and Deus absconditus -- $t Conclusion -- $g 4. $t Magic's world -- $t Outside within -- $t Secret -- $t Initiation -- $t As if -- $t Happy ending. 650 0 $a Knowledge, Theory of. 650 0 $a Reality. 650 0 $a Magic. 650 0 $a Metaphysics. 650 0 $a Technology and civilization. 650 7 $a Knowledge, Theory of. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00988194 650 7 $a Magic. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01005468 650 7 $a Metaphysics. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01018304 650 7 $a Reality. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01091244 650 7 $a Technology and civilization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01145253 776 08 $i Electronic version: $a Campagna, Federico. $t Technic and magic. $d London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 $z 9781350044036 $w (OCoLC)1030625070 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213022615.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=84CC1352462211E9A3F20F6897128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search