Federico Campagna

Technic and Magic (eBook, PDF)

The Reconstruction of Reality

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350044036
• Artikelnr.: 53288724

Autorenporträt

Federico Campagna is an Italian philosopher based in London, UK. He is the author of Technic and Magic: the reconstruction of reality (2018) and The Last Night: anti-work, atheism, adventure (2013). He works as a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in the Hague, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

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