num_pages: 256
description: We take for granted that only a 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 very foundations of reality begin to crumble thus 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 Stirners philosophies through Pessoas poetry to Advaita Vedanta Bhartrhari Ibn Arabi Suhrawardi and Mulla Sadras theosophies  Magics system of reality is presented as a specular alternative to Technic. While Technic attempts to capture the world at the lace of 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.
language: English
title: Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality
publisher: Bloomsbury