Modernism and Magic: Experiments with Spiritualism, Theosophy and the Occult
ISBN: 9780748631650
Platform/Publisher: Cambridge Core / Edinburgh University Press
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While modernismOCOs engagement with the occult has been approached by critics as the result of a loss of faith in representation, an attempt to draw on science as the primary discourse of modernity, or as a hidden history of ideas, Leigh Wilson argues that these discourses have at their heart a magical practice which remakes the relationship between world and representation. As Wilson demonstrates, the courses of the occult are based on a magical mimesis which transforms the nature of the copy, from inert t


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