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Hypnosis Between Science and Magic

By Isabelle Stengers

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2024
ISBN
9781350501423, 9781350501416, 9781350501447, 9781350501430
DOI
10.5040/9781350501454
ASIN
B0DQVCM8NL
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1696923 bytes)
Series
Lines
Edition
1
Pages
168\177
Time added
2024-12-26 10:04:06

Description

What if judgment returned to the craft of magic? How would that relieve the burdens of critique and realign its priorities? These questions regarding the value of magic to thinking are at the very heart of the acclaimed philosopher of science Isabelle Stengers' political and philosophical thought and her insistence that 'the smoke of the burned witches still hangs in our nostrils'. Now, in the first English translation of this classic text, Hypnosis Between Science and Magic provides an entry point to the work of Isabelle Stengers, who has so originally and forcefully shifted how we think about the history of ideas. The book focuses in on an area of her thought that has recurred throughout her career: the presumed antagonism between magic and science, and especially the evacuation of magic from all that is thought to be scientifically valid.

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