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Author(s): Copenhaver, Brian P.;Ficino, Marsilio
ISBN(s): 9781107070523, 110707052X
Edition: First published
File Details: PDF, 81.84 MB
Year: 2015
Language: english
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ISBN 10:110707052X

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Author:  Brian P. Copenhaver

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 times – this groundbreaking book treats magic as a classical tradition with foundations that were distinctly philosophical. Besides Ficino, the premodern story of magic also features Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus, Aquinas, Agrippa, Pomponazzi, Porta, Bruno, Campanella, Descartes, Boyle, Leibniz, and Newton, to name only a few of the prominent thinkers discussed in this book. Because pictures play a key role in the story of magic, this book is richly illustrated.
 

Table of Contents:

Part I – Introduction

  • Chapter One: The Scruples of J. G. Frazer
  • Chapter Two: Magic as a Classical Tradition and Its Philosophical Foundations

Part II – Mageia

  • Chapter Three: Ancient Philosophy in Ficino’s Magic (Plotinus)
  • Chapter Four: Ancient Philosophy in Ficino’s Magic (Neoplatonism and the Chaldaean Oracles)
  • Chapter Five: Ancient Philosophy in Ficino’s Magic (Hermes and Proclus)
  • Chapter Six: Scholastic Philosophy in Ficino’s Magic
  • Chapter Seven: Data: A Tale of Two Fish

Part III – Hermetica

  • Chapter Eight: Hermes the Theologian
  • Chapter Nine: Hermes Domesticated
  • Chapter Ten: Hermes on Parade

Part IV – Magic Revived and Rejected

  • Chapter Eleven: How to Do Magic, and Why
  • Chapter Twelve: Nature, Magic, and the Art of Picturing
  • Chapter Thirteen: The Power of Magic and the Poverty of Erudition
  • Chapter Fourteen: Disenchantment

Part V – Conclusion

  • Chapter Fifteen: Who Killed Dabholkar?

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