Magical Epistemologies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Magical Epistemologies write by Anannya Dasgupta. This book was released on 2021-07-22. Magical Epistemologies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book began with a simple question: when readers such as us encounter the term magic or figures of magicians in early modern texts, dramatic or otherwise, how do we read them? In the twenty-first century we have recourse to an array of genres and vocabulary from magical realism to fantasy fiction that does not, however, work to read a historical figure like John Dee or a fictional one he inspired in Shakespeare's Prospero. Between longings to transcend human limitation and the actual work of producing, translating, and organizing knowledge, figures such as Dee invite us to re-examine our ways of reading magic only as metaphor. If not metaphor then what else? As we parse the term magic, it reveals a rich context of use that connects various aspects of social, cultural, religious, economic, legal and medical lives of the early moderns. Magic makes its presence felt not only as a forms of knowledge but in methods of knowing in the Renaissance. The arc of dramatists and texts that this book draws between Doctor Faustus, The Tempest, The Alchemist and Comus: A Masque at Ludlow Castle offers a sustained examination of the epistemologies of magic in the context of early modern knowledge formation. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Critical Conversations in African Philosophy
Critical Conversations in African Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Conversations in African Philosophy write by Alena Rettová. This book was released on 2021-11-29. Critical Conversations in African Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this edited collection contributors examine key themes, sources and methods in contemporary African Philosophy, building on a wide-ranging understanding of what constitutes African philosophy, and drawing from a variety of both oral and written texts of different genres. Part one of the volume examines how African philosophy has reacted to burning issues, ranging from contemporary ethical questions on how to integrate technological advancements into human life; to one of philosophy’s prime endeavours, which is establishing the conditions of knowledge; to eternal ontological and existential questions on the nature of being, time, memory and death. Part two reflects on the (re)definition of philosophy from an African vantage point and African philosophy’s thrust to create its own canon, archive and resources to study African concepts, artefacts, practices and texts from the perspective of intellectual history. The volume aims to make a contribution to the academic debate on African philosophy and philosophy more broadly, challenging orthodox definitions and genres, in favour of a broadening of the discipline’s self-understanding and locales. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African philosophy and comparative philosophy.
The Epistemology of Occultism
The Epistemology of Occultism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Epistemology of Occultism write by Ronnie Lee. This book was released on 2018-06-19. The Epistemology of Occultism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'The Epistemology of Occultism' is my 43rd philosophy book written in free verse poetry. This book continues from my previous books and it reveals the secrets of the elites based on the occult and esoteric rules of their secret societies. This includes the philosophies and the politics of the Vril, the Khazars and the quaternion state. In this book, there are some magical rules explained that allow the 'social survival' of the elites using occult politics. There are deep truths shown from the creation of language based on the laws of linguistics that create the occult mindsets based on the spiritual directives enforced by the spiritual war of energy and information. This book allows the reader to gain insight and knowledge into the psyche of the elites in the End Times through the epistemology of occultism based on the esoteric magic for social survival.
Magical Thinking
Magical Thinking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Magical Thinking write by Stuart McWilliams. This book was released on 2011-12-08. Magical Thinking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do we write about magic? Responding to a renewed interest in the history of the occult, this volume examines the role of magic in a series of methodological controversies in the humanities. In case studies ranging from the 'necromancy' of historiography to the strident rationalism of the 'New Atheism,' Magical Thinking sets out the surprising ways in which scholars and critics have imagined the occult. The volume argues that thinking and writing about magic has engendered multiple epistemological crises, profoundly unsettling the understanding of history and knowledge in Western culture. By examining how scholarly writing has contended and conspired with discourses of enchantment, the book reveals the implications of magic - and its scholarship - for intellectual history.
Religion as Magical Ideology
Religion as Magical Ideology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion as Magical Ideology write by Konrad Talmont-Kaminski. This book was released on 2014-10-20. Religion as Magical Ideology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Religion as Magical Ideology' examines the relationship between rationality and supernatural beliefs arguing that such beliefs are products of evolution, cognition and culture. The book does not offer a false rapprochement between reason and religion; instead, it explores their interrelationship as a series of complex adaptations between cognitive and cultural processes. Exploring the nature of the tension between religious traditions and reason, 'Religion as Magical Ideology' develops a dual inheritance theory of religion - which combines the cognitive byproduct and prosocial adaptation accounts - and analyses the connection between the function of a belief and the degree of protection it gets from potential counter-evidence. With discussion ranging from individual cognitive mechanisms, general functional considerations, to the limits of evolutionary and cognitive processes, the book offers readers a systematic account of how cognition shapes religious beliefs and practices.
