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Magic in Western Culture : From Antiquity to the Enlightenment.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (616 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781316329603
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 133.4/309
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Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of illustrations and charts -- Preface -- Part I Introduction -- 1 The Scruples of J. G. Frazer -- 1 Scarehorse -- 2 The Golden Bough -- 3 Magic and the Classics -- 4 Miscellaneous Nonsense -- 2 Magic as a Classical Tradition and Its Philosophical Foundations -- 1 Mageia -- 2 Ancient Philosophy -- 3 Anthropology -- 4 Renaissance Philosophy -- 5 Classicism -- 6 Warburg -- Part II Mageia -- 3 Ancient Philosophy in Ficino's Magic: plotinus -- 1 Seminal Reasons -- 2 Statues -- 3 Soul and Souls -- 4 Figures -- 4 Ancient Philosophy in Ficino's Magic: Neoplatonism and the Chaldaean Oracles -- 1 Statues -- 2 Jynxes -- 3 Egyptian Mysteries -- 4 Chaldaean Oracles -- 5 Higher Gifts -- 5 Ancient Philosophy in Ficino's Magic: Hermes and Proclus -- 1 Korê Kosmou -- 2 A Theory of Magic -- 3 On the Priestly Art -- 4 Chains, Orders, and Eros -- 5 Experiments -- 6 Scholastic Philosophy in Ficino's Magic -- 1 What Does a Christian Want with Magic? -- 2 The Whole Substance -- 3 Amulets and Talismans -- 4 Form and Figure -- 5 Occult Qualities and Substantial Forms -- 6 Healing with Stones and Stars -- 7 Aristotelians and Platonists -- 7 Data: A Tale of Two Fish -- 1 Gassendi's Flea -- 2 Naukratês, Narkê, and the Fish They Swam With -- 3 Christian Witness at Sea -- 4 From Philology to Ichthyology -- 5 Scaling the Heights of Impudence -- 6 Yesterday's Fish in Tomorrow's Science -- 7 The Best of Times and the Worst of Times -- Part III Hermetica -- 8 Hermes the Theologian -- 1 Endorsing Magic -- 2 Hermes in Siena -- 3 Sibyls and Egyptians -- 4 Pimander -- 5 Will, Wisdom, and Power -- 6 Androgynous Divinity -- 9 Hermes Domesticated -- 1 Thoth -- 2 Hermes in Tuscany -- 3 Lorenzo and Hermes -- 4 Socratic Demons -- 10 Hermes on Parade -- 1 Magic on Trial.
2 Giovanni Mercurio -- 3 A Mixing Bowl -- 4 Lazzarelli the Hermetist -- Part IV Magic Revived and Rejected -- 11 How to Do Magic, and Why -- 1 Magic and Modernity -- 2 Philosophy, Physiology, and Medicine -- A. Medicine for the Melancholy -- B. Practicing Medicine -- 3 Geriatrics, Astrology and Amulets -- A. Disease and the Heavens -- B. Astrology for the Aged -- C. Risky Remedies -- 4 Astrology, Magic, and Medicine -- A. Platonic Theology -- B. Natural and Demonic Magic -- C. Authority and Evidence -- D. Cosmology and Metaphysics -- E. Spirit, Rays, and Figures -- F. Nature and Art -- G. Models for Magic -- H. Music, Gods, and Demons -- 5 Before and After De vita -- 12 Nature, Magic, and the Art of Picturing -- 1 Aristotelian Naturalism and Natural Magic -- 2 Agrippa's Magic Manual -- 3 Leonardo's Dragons -- 4 Virtues Dormitive and Visual -- 5 Some Renaissance Magicians -- 13 The Power of Magic and the Poverty of Erudition -- 1 Magic and Memory in the Universal Library -- 2 Reforming Memory and Magic -- 14 Disenchantment -- 1 Magic Around 1600 -- 2 Magic in Late Scholasticism -- 3 Magic in a New Metaphysics -- 4 Magic in a New Theosophy -- 5 Scepticism and Atomism Mitigated -- 6 Bad Doctrines -- 7 Facts and Reasons -- 8 Seeing Ghosts -- 9 Looking All the Way Down -- 10 Exit the Asylum -- 11 Principled Reasons -- Part V Conclusion -- 15 Who Killed Dabholkar? -- 1 Data -- 2 A Crime without a Name -- Notes -- 1. The Scruples of J. G. Frazer -- 2. Magic as a Classical Tradition and Its Philosophical Foundations -- 3. Ancient Philosophy in Ficino's Magic: Plotinus -- 4. Ancient Philosophy in Ficino's Magic: Neoplatonism and the Chaldaean Oracles -- 5. Ancient Philosophy in Ficino's Magic: Hermes and Proclus -- 6. Scholastic Philosophy in Ficino's Magic -- 7. Data: A Tale of Two Fish -- 8. Hermes the Theologian -- 9. Hermes Domesticated.
10. Hermes on Parade -- 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 -- 15. Who Killed Dabholkar? -- Abbreviations and Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: 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, this richly illustrated and groundbreaking book treats magic as a classical tradition with foundations that were philosophical.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of illustrations and charts -- Preface -- Part I Introduction -- 1 The Scruples of J. G. Frazer -- 1 Scarehorse -- 2 The Golden Bough -- 3 Magic and the Classics -- 4 Miscellaneous Nonsense -- 2 Magic as a Classical Tradition and Its Philosophical Foundations -- 1 Mageia -- 2 Ancient Philosophy -- 3 Anthropology -- 4 Renaissance Philosophy -- 5 Classicism -- 6 Warburg -- Part II Mageia -- 3 Ancient Philosophy in Ficino's Magic: plotinus -- 1 Seminal Reasons -- 2 Statues -- 3 Soul and Souls -- 4 Figures -- 4 Ancient Philosophy in Ficino's Magic: Neoplatonism and the Chaldaean Oracles -- 1 Statues -- 2 Jynxes -- 3 Egyptian Mysteries -- 4 Chaldaean Oracles -- 5 Higher Gifts -- 5 Ancient Philosophy in Ficino's Magic: Hermes and Proclus -- 1 Korê Kosmou -- 2 A Theory of Magic -- 3 On the Priestly Art -- 4 Chains, Orders, and Eros -- 5 Experiments -- 6 Scholastic Philosophy in Ficino's Magic -- 1 What Does a Christian Want with Magic? -- 2 The Whole Substance -- 3 Amulets and Talismans -- 4 Form and Figure -- 5 Occult Qualities and Substantial Forms -- 6 Healing with Stones and Stars -- 7 Aristotelians and Platonists -- 7 Data: A Tale of Two Fish -- 1 Gassendi's Flea -- 2 Naukratês, Narkê, and the Fish They Swam With -- 3 Christian Witness at Sea -- 4 From Philology to Ichthyology -- 5 Scaling the Heights of Impudence -- 6 Yesterday's Fish in Tomorrow's Science -- 7 The Best of Times and the Worst of Times -- Part III Hermetica -- 8 Hermes the Theologian -- 1 Endorsing Magic -- 2 Hermes in Siena -- 3 Sibyls and Egyptians -- 4 Pimander -- 5 Will, Wisdom, and Power -- 6 Androgynous Divinity -- 9 Hermes Domesticated -- 1 Thoth -- 2 Hermes in Tuscany -- 3 Lorenzo and Hermes -- 4 Socratic Demons -- 10 Hermes on Parade -- 1 Magic on Trial.

2 Giovanni Mercurio -- 3 A Mixing Bowl -- 4 Lazzarelli the Hermetist -- Part IV Magic Revived and Rejected -- 11 How to Do Magic, and Why -- 1 Magic and Modernity -- 2 Philosophy, Physiology, and Medicine -- A. Medicine for the Melancholy -- B. Practicing Medicine -- 3 Geriatrics, Astrology and Amulets -- A. Disease and the Heavens -- B. Astrology for the Aged -- C. Risky Remedies -- 4 Astrology, Magic, and Medicine -- A. Platonic Theology -- B. Natural and Demonic Magic -- C. Authority and Evidence -- D. Cosmology and Metaphysics -- E. Spirit, Rays, and Figures -- F. Nature and Art -- G. Models for Magic -- H. Music, Gods, and Demons -- 5 Before and After De vita -- 12 Nature, Magic, and the Art of Picturing -- 1 Aristotelian Naturalism and Natural Magic -- 2 Agrippa's Magic Manual -- 3 Leonardo's Dragons -- 4 Virtues Dormitive and Visual -- 5 Some Renaissance Magicians -- 13 The Power of Magic and the Poverty of Erudition -- 1 Magic and Memory in the Universal Library -- 2 Reforming Memory and Magic -- 14 Disenchantment -- 1 Magic Around 1600 -- 2 Magic in Late Scholasticism -- 3 Magic in a New Metaphysics -- 4 Magic in a New Theosophy -- 5 Scepticism and Atomism Mitigated -- 6 Bad Doctrines -- 7 Facts and Reasons -- 8 Seeing Ghosts -- 9 Looking All the Way Down -- 10 Exit the Asylum -- 11 Principled Reasons -- Part V Conclusion -- 15 Who Killed Dabholkar? -- 1 Data -- 2 A Crime without a Name -- Notes -- 1. The Scruples of J. G. Frazer -- 2. Magic as a Classical Tradition and Its Philosophical Foundations -- 3. Ancient Philosophy in Ficino's Magic: Plotinus -- 4. Ancient Philosophy in Ficino's Magic: Neoplatonism and the Chaldaean Oracles -- 5. Ancient Philosophy in Ficino's Magic: Hermes and Proclus -- 6. Scholastic Philosophy in Ficino's Magic -- 7. Data: A Tale of Two Fish -- 8. Hermes the Theologian -- 9. Hermes Domesticated.

10. Hermes on Parade -- 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 -- 15. Who Killed Dabholkar? -- Abbreviations and Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index.

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, this richly illustrated and groundbreaking book treats magic as a classical tradition with foundations that were philosophical.

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