Magic

Magic
Title Magic PDF eBook
Author Albert Allis Hopkins
Publisher
Pages 588
Release 1901
Genre Conjuring
ISBN

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The Open Court

The Open Court
Title The Open Court PDF eBook
Author Paul Carus
Publisher
Pages 988
Release 1903
Genre Religion
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The Romantic Machine

The Romantic Machine
Title The Romantic Machine PDF eBook
Author John Tresch
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 469
Release 2012-06-05
Genre History
ISBN 0226812200

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Introduction: Mechanical Romanticism -- DEVICES OF COSMIC UNITY -- Ampère's Experiments: Contours of a Cosmic Cubstance -- Humboldt's Instruments: Even the Tools Will Be Free -- Arago's Daguerreotype: The Labor Theory of Knowledge -- SPECTACLES OF CREATION AND METAMORPHOSIS -- The Devil's Opera: Fantastic Physiospiritualism -- Monsters, Machine-Men, Magicians: The Automaton in the Garden -- ENGINEERS OF ARTIFICIAL PARADISES -- Saint-Simonian Engines: Love and Conversions -- Leroux's Pianotype: The Organogenesis of Humanity -- Comte's Calendar: From Infinite Universe to Closed World -- Conclusion: Afterlives of the Romantic Machine.

The Open Court

The Open Court
Title The Open Court PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 810
Release 1903
Genre
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Modern Enchantments

Modern Enchantments
Title Modern Enchantments PDF eBook
Author Simon During
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 349
Release 2004-03-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0674034392

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Magic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's superlative work, written over the course of a decade, gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts--and by "magic," During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows--affect people? Modern Enchantments takes us deeply into the history and workings of modern secular magic, from the legerdemain of Isaac Fawkes in 1720, to the return of real magic in nineteenth-century spiritualism, to the role of magic in the emergence of the cinema. Through the course of this history, During shows how magic performances have drawn together heterogeneous audiences, contributed to the molding of cultural hierarchies, and extended cultural technologies and media at key moments, sometimes introducing spectators into rationality and helping to disseminate skepticism and publicize scientific innovation. In a more revealing argument still, Modern Enchantments shows that magic entertainments have increased the sway of fictions in our culture and helped define modern society's image of itself.

The Old and the New Magic

The Old and the New Magic
Title The Old and the New Magic PDF eBook
Author Henry Ridgely Evans
Publisher
Pages 422
Release 1906
Genre Magic
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Magic's Reason

Magic's Reason
Title Magic's Reason PDF eBook
Author Graham M. Jones
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 219
Release 2017-12-06
Genre History
ISBN 022651871X

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In Magic’s Reason, Graham M. Jones tells the entwined stories of anthropology and entertainment magic. The two pursuits are not as separate as they may seem at first. As Jones shows, they not only matured around the same time, but they also shared mutually reinforcing stances toward modernity and rationality. It is no historical accident, for example, that colonial ethnographers drew analogies between Western magicians and native ritual performers, who, in their view, hoodwinked gullible people into believing their sleight of hand was divine. Using French magicians’ engagements with North African ritual performers as a case study, Jones shows how magic became enshrined in anthropological reasoning. Acknowledging the residue of magic’s colonial origins doesn’t require us to dispense with it. Rather, through this radical reassessment of classic anthropological ideas, Magic’s Reason develops a new perspective on the promise and peril of cross-cultural comparison.