Magic has been an important term in Western history and continues to be an essential topic in the modern academic study of religion, anthropology, sociology, and cultural history. Defining Magic is the first volume to assemble key texts that aim at determining the nature of magic, establish its boundaries and key features, and explain its working. The reader brings together seminal writings from antiquity to today. The texts have been selected on the strength of their success in defining magic as a category, their impact on future scholarship, and their originality. The writings are divided...
Magic has been an important term in Western history and continues to be an essential topic in the modern academic study of religion, anthropology, soc...
Was ist -Magie-? Diese Frage beschaftigte nicht nur Religionswissenschaftler der letzten beiden Jahrhunderte, sondern bereits antike Dichter und Philosophen, judische, christliche und muslimische Autoren, fruhneuzeitliche Humanisten, Aufklarer, Romantiker sowie Personen, die sich- von der Spatantike bis heute- selbst als -Magier- bezeichnet und verstanden haben. Um der Vielfalt ihrer Meinungen gerecht zu werden, legt Bernd-Christian Otto erstmals eine zusammenhangende Darstellung der etwa 2500 Jahre umfassenden Geschichte des Magiebegriffs vor. Ottos konsequente Historisierung des...
Was ist -Magie-? Diese Frage beschaftigte nicht nur Religionswissenschaftler der letzten beiden Jahrhunderte, sondern bereits antike Dichter und Ph...
This book presents the story of a unique collection of 140 manuscripts of 'learned magic' that was sold for a fantastic sum within the clandestine channels of the German book trade in the early eighteenth century. The book will interpret this collection from two angles - as an artefact of the early modern book market as well as the longue-duree tradition of Western learned magic -, thus taking a new stance towards scribal texts that are often regarded as eccentric, peripheral, or marginal. The study is structured by the apparent exceptionality, scarcity, and illegality of the collection,...
This book presents the story of a unique collection of 140 manuscripts of 'learned magic' that was sold for a fantastic sum within the clandestine ...
