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Magic --- Science and magic --- History --- History.
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Magic --- Science and magic --- History --- Paracelsus
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Enlightenment. --- Occultism and science --- Science and magic --- Science --- History
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Science and magic --- Occultism. --- Sciences et magie --- Occultisme
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Magic, Science and Society investigates the way the ‘rationality debate’ has developed over the last century, from E.E. Evans-Pritchard’s study of Azande magic, through Peter Winch’s argument that there can be no such thing as a social science, across the arguments about the proper status of science in the 1970s and 1980s, to the ‘epistemological’ and ‘ontological’ turns of the early twenty-first century.Different people have different understandings of what is rational: some practise magic, some orientate to legal convention and tradition and others defer to science and logic. Starting with anthropological studies of witchcraft, and working through to contemporary debates about epistemology and ontology in social science, this book systematically examines the ways key questions about these issues have been framed and answered.
Rationalism. --- Magic. --- Science and magic. --- Rationalité. --- Magie. --- Sciences et magie.
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On a parfois décrit Bacon comme un attardé, comme un penseur d'arrière-garde qui n'aurait pas pris la pleine mesure de la révolution scientifique qui se jouait sous ses yeux. En réalité, en puisant dans l'héritage intellectuel de la Renaissance anglaise, et en réalisant la synthèse du courant humaniste, de la tradition magique et du débat autour des arts mécaniques, Bacon propose une idée nouvelle de la science et de son rôle pour l'homme. Si l'ensemble de son oeuvre philosophique vise à ouvrir la voie à une science nouvelle qui ne se perde plus en vaines conjectures mais permette de découvrir les lois véritables de la nature et de produire des oeuvres qui profitent à l'humanité tout entière, c'est peut-être dans la Nouvelle Atlantide que l'idée baconienne de la science trouve son expression la plus efficace et la plus originale. Car Bacon ne se contente pas d'y reprendre les thèmes qui traversent toute son oeuvre : véritable appel à l'action, la Nouvelle Atlantide donne à voir ce que pourrait être cette science féconde, utile et salvatrice qu'il entend fonder.
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Science in literature --- Science and magic --- Literature and society --- Magic in literature
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A new history which overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britain. In early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. Among both educated and ordinary people the absolute existence of a spiritual world was taken for granted. Yet in the eighteenth century such certainties were swept away. Credit for this great change is usually given to science - and in particular to the scientists of the Royal Society. But is this justified? Michael Hunter argues that those pioneering the change in attitude were not scientists but freethinkers. While some scientists defended the reality of supernatural phenomena, these sceptical humanists drew on ancient authors to mount a critique both of orthodox religion and, by extension, of magic and other forms of superstition. Even if the religious heterodoxy of such men tarnished their reputation and postponed the general acceptance of anti-magical views, slowly change did come about. When it did, this owed less to the testing of magic than to the growth of confidence in a stable world in which magic no longer had a place.
Occultism --- Spiritualism --- Enlightenment --- Science and magic --- Faith and reason --- History --- History.
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Magic Science Religion explores surprising intersections among the three meaning-making and world-making practices named in the title. Through colorful examples, the book reveals circuitous ways that social, cultural and natural systems connect, enabling real kinds of magic to operate. Among the many case studies are accounts of how an eighteenth-century actor gave his audience goosebumps; how painters, poets, and pool sharks use nonlinearity in working their magics; how the first vertebrates gained consciousness; how plants fine-tuned human color vision; and the necessarily magical element of activism that builds on the conviction that "another future is possible" while working to push self-fulfilling prophecy into political action.
Magic --- Science and magic. --- Religion and science. --- Science --- Social aspects. --- Religious aspects.
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