Screen LibraryTechnic and magic : the reconstruction of reality /
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 co...
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Bloomsbury,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
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 |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 256 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-245) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781350044029 1350044024 9781350044012 1350044016 |
| Index Number: | BD331 |
| CLC: | B017 |
| Call Number: | B017/C186 |
| Contents: |
Technic's world. Crisis of reality ; Technic ; Measure and infinity ; No outside ; Crisis of action, crisis of imagination -- Technic's cosmogony. absolute language ; abstract general entity ; life as vulnerability ; ego absconditus and double affirmation ; what is reality? Between India and the West ; Why seek rea |