LEADER 03718nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910789628203321 005 20220402003857.0 010 $a0-8014-6225-8 010 $a0-8014-6054-9 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801460548 035 $a(CKB)2670000000079052 035 $a(OCoLC)726824245 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457604 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000486223 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11291733 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486223 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10430497 035 $a(PQKB)10164278 035 $a(DE-B1597)480098 035 $a(OCoLC)979970001 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801460548 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3137983 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457604 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681698 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3137983 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000079052 100 $a20061027d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe occult mind$b[electronic resource] $emagic in theory and practice /$fChristopher I. Lehrich 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-50416-4 311 0 $a0-8014-4538-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tPreface --$t1. Ægypt --$t2. The Ley of the Land --$t3. The Theater of Hieroglyphs --$t4. The Magic Museum --$t5. Tarocco and Fugue --$t6. De(mon)construction --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $a"Given the historical orientation of philosophy, is it unreasonable to suggest a wider cast of the net into the deep waters of magic? By encountering magical thought as theory, we come to a new understanding of a thought that looks back at us from a funhouse mirror."-from The Occult Mind Divination, like many critical modes, involves reading signs, and magic, more generally, can be seen as a kind of criticism that takes the universe-seen and unseen, known and unknowable-as its text. In The Occult Mind, Christopher I. Lehrich explores the history of magic in Western thought, suggesting a bold new understanding of the claims made about the power of various belief systems.In closely interlinked essays on such disparate topics as ley lines, the Tarot, the Corpus Hermeticum, writing and ritual in magical practice, and early attempts to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics, Lehrich treats magic and its parts as an intellectual object that requires interpretive zeal on the part of readers/observers. Drawing illuminating parallels between the practice of magic and more recent interpretive systems-structuralism, deconstruction, semiotics-Lehrich deftly suggests that the specter of magic haunts all such attempts to grasp the character of knowledge. Offering a radical new approach to the nature and value of occult thought, Lehrich's brilliantly conceived and executed book posits magic as a mode of theory that is intrinsically subversive of normative conceptions of reason and truth. In elucidating the deep parallels between occult thought and academic discourse, Lehrich demonstrates that sixteenth-century occult philosophy often touched on issues that have become central to philosophical discourse only in the past fifty years. 606 $aMagic 606 $aOccultism 615 0$aMagic. 615 0$aOccultism. 676 $a133.4/3 700 $aLehrich$b Christopher I$01522338 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789628203321 996 $aThe occult mind$93808916 997 $aUNINA