Prophetic Culture

Recreation For Adolescents

Federico Campagna (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-14962-5 (ISBN)

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Selected as one of The Tablet’s Books of the Year 2021

Throughout history, different civilisations have given rise to many alternative worlds. Each of them was the enactment of a unique story about the structure of reality, the rhythm of time and the range of what it is possible to think and to do in the course of a life. Cosmological stories, however, are fragile things. As soon as they lose their ring of truth and their significance for living, the worlds that they brought into existence disintegrate. New and alien worlds emerge from their ruins.

Federico Campagna explores the twilight of our contemporary notion of reality, and the fading of the cosmological story that belonged to the civilisation of Westernised Modernity. How are we to face the challenge of leaving a fertile cultural legacy to those who will come after the end of our future? How can we help the creation of new worlds out of the ruins of our own?

Federico Campagna is an Italian philosopher based in London, UK. He is the author of Technic and Magic: the reconstruction of reality (2018) and The Last Night: anti-work, atheism, adventure (2013). He works as a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in the Hague, the Netherlands.

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Time
- Prologue: Jons the Squire
- A Great Future Behind You
- The Afterlife of Civilisations
- Westernised Modernity

Chapter 2: Otherworlds
- Prologue: Anamorphosis
- Aesthetics and Annihilation
- A Chance to Lie
- Archaic Adolescents
- Tetrapharmakon

Chapter 3: Prophetic Culture
- Prologue: The Enigma
- Stuttering
- The Grotesque
- The Prophet as a Position
- Apocatastasis
- A Memory of Having Forgotten
- Prophecy as Therapy of Worlding

Cosmography
- 0 / 15 – Scheintür
- 1 – The Island of Facts
o 14 – Consciousness
- 2 – Mundus Imaginalis
- 3 – The World
o 13 – Angel
- 4 – The Point-Island of the Ineffable
- 5 – The Dream
o 12 – God
- 6 – The Sleeping Gods
- 7 – Being
o 11 – Grammar
- 8 – Non-Being
o 10 – Death
- 9 – Non-relationality

Afterword: Sensuous Prophecy, by Franco Berardi ‘Bifo’

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Erscheinungsdatum	16.06.2021
Nachwort	Franco Berardi
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	362 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
ISBN-10	1-350-14962-4 / 1350149624
ISBN-13	978-1-350-14962-5 / 9781350149625
Zustand	Neuware