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Magical Thinking : History, Possibility and the Idea of the Occult by Stuart James McWilliams is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Magical Thinking : History, Possibility and the Idea of the Occult about?
Magic is usually defined as a non-modern phenomenon, contrasted with modern rationalism and science. However, the idea of magic has remained persistent in scholarly discourse throughout history from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment and beyond. This volume explores how the notion of magic is articulated and theorised in the writing of history. Departing from writing "about" magic in history, this volume addresses magic as it relates to the trajectories of intellectual history as a whole, with
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Stuart James McWilliams
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781472508584
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Western, Philosophy, Psychology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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