Brian P. Copenhaver

Magic in Western Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This richly illustrated and groundbreaking book treats magic as a classical tradition with foundations that were distinctly philosophical.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 616
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1032g
• ISBN-13: 9781107070523
• ISBN-10: 110707052X
• Artikelnr.: 41962239

Autorenporträt

Brian P. Copenhaver is Distinguished Professor and Udvar-Hazy Chair of Philosophy and History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and past president of the Journal of the History of Philosophy; he is also a member of the council of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento in Italy. He serves or has served on the boards of Rinascimento, Renaissance Quarterly, Annals of Science, the Journal of the History of Ideas, Early Science and Medicine, the International Archives of the History of Ideas, and the I Tatti Renaissance Library. The most recent of his eleven books is Peter of Spain's Summaries of Logic (2014, with Calvin Normore and Terry Parsons).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. The scruples of J. G. Frazer
2. Magic as a classical tradition and its philosophical foundations
Part II. Mageia: 3. Ancient philosophy in Ficino's magic I: Plotinus
4. Ancient philosophy in Ficinio's magic II: Neoplatonism and the Chaldaean Oracles
5. Ancient philosophy in Ficino's magic III: Hermes and Proclus
6. Scholastic philosophy in Ficino's magic
7. Data: a tale of two fish
Part III. Hermetica: 8. Hermes the theologian
9. Hermes domesticated
10. Hermes on parade
Part IV. Magic Revived and Rejected: 11. How to do magic, and why
12. Nature, magic, and the art of picturing
13. The power of magic and the poverty of erudition
14. Disenchantment
Part V. Conclusion: 15. Who killed Dabholkar?