Curious visions of modernity : enchantment, magic, and the sacred /
Haunted by a secret knowledge and a repressed enchantment, Western rationality is not what it seems.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, MA :
MIT Press,
2011.
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| ISBN: | 9780262298971 026229897X 9780262298100 0262298104 |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Collection
- Unpacking the Collection
- Visions of Wonderment: Overcoming the Logic of the Treasure Hoard
- Of Lux and Lumen: Reflections on the Sacred
- Rainbow Madonna: The Transparency of Scientific Knowledge
- "Enlightenment" of Curiosity: Dispelling the Enchantment of Collection
- Fox, the Fake, and the Firmament
- Renewal of Worlds: The "Knowing" Prince and the Cult of the Machine
- Postscript: From Collection to Exhibition
- 2. Bodies
- Scientific Prestidigitations: The "Collection" and Repatriation of Yagan
- Three Tasks of Andreas Vesalius: A "Biography" of Anatomy
- Life of Infamous Men
- Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaas Tulp
- Representing Open Bodies: The Birth of a Scientific Gaze
- Normative Science and the "Evasiveness" of Anatomical Illustration
- Carnivalesque Anatomy: The Narrative of the Criminal-God
- Beyond Iconography: Toward a Reclamation of the Sacred
- Conclusion: Dissecting Statues / Invigorating Knowledge
- Postscript: Fragments of Yagan
- 3. Spaces
- Visions of Modernity: Perspectives on the Sacred
- Painting the "World Picture": Toward a Genealogy of Cartography
- Moral Geographies / Earthly Technologies: The Magic of Geometric Perspective
- Cartographic Desire: Mapping and the Erasure of Space
- Mapping and the Colonization of Space
- Modernity in Ascension: The World Picture Mourning the Celestial
- Postscript: The Maze of Linear Discourse
- CONCLUSION
- Scientific "Visions" of the Living Body
- Monuments and Masks: Visions of a Modern Sacred
- Conclusion.