Magic in Western culture : from antiquity to the Enlightenment /

"The story of the beliefs and practices called 'magic' starts in ancient Iran, Greece, and Rome, before entering its crucial Christian phase in the Middle Ages. Centering on the Renaissance and Marsilio Ficino - whose work on magic was the most influential account written in premodern...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Copenhaver, Brian P. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Ficino, Marsilio, > 1433-1499.
Ficino, Marsilio, > 1433-1499
Magic > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Parapsychology > General.
Magic
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?

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