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Prophetic culture
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- Book Synopsis
- Selected as one of The Tablet's Books of the Year 2021 Throughout history, different civilisations have given rise to many alternative worlds. Each of them was the enactment of a unique story about the structure of reality, the rhythm of time and the range of what it is possible to think and to do in the course of a life. Cosmological stories, however, are fragile things. As soon as they lose their ring of truth and their significance for living, the worlds that they brought into existence disintegrate. New and alien worlds emerge from their ruins. Federico Campagna explores the twilight of our contemporary notion of reality, and the fading of the cosmological story that belonged to the civilisation of Westernised Modernity. How are we to face the challenge of leaving a fertile cultural legacy to those who will come after the end of our future? How can we help the creation of new worlds out of the ruins of our own?
- About The Author
- Federico Campagna is an Italian philosopher based in London. His latest books with Bloomsbury are 'Otherworlds: Mediterranean lessons on escaping History' (2025), 'Prophetic Culture: Recreation for adolescents' (2021), and 'Technic and Magic: The reconstruction of reality' (2018). He is Associate Fellow at the Warburg Institute in London, and a lecturer at The Architectural Association in London and at ECAL in Lausanne. He is the co-founder of the Italian publishing house Timeo and a director at the Anglo-American radical publisher Verso. He frequently collaborates as speaker and public program advisor with some of the main museums in Europe.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781350149625
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic, (17 June 2021)
- Number of Pages
- 280
- Weight
- 360 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 214 x 136 x 22 mm
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