The Myth of Disenchantment by Jason A

Author:Jason A [Jason A]
Language: eng
Format: epub

MAGICAL PHILOSOPHY AND DISENCHANTMENT: LUDWIG KLAGES

The philosophy of the academy is mechanistic theory, and their practice is mechanical. Magical philosophy rejects the [Aristotelian] law of identity [in favor of flux]; hence it denies unity, objects, duration, recurrence, and mathematics; it denies concepts and causality, because causality is the functional parallel to the logical correlation.

LUDWIG KLAGES, Rhythmen und Runen, 1944

The best way to introduce Ludwig Klages’s magical philosophy is to paint a recognizable pastiche figure so we have something to compare it to. If we threw everything we teach in American “continental philosophy” or “theory” courses into a blender, what would it look like? Put differently, I think if one were to assemble a Franco-Frankfurt-Frankenstein’s monster out of oft-taught fragments from German critical theory, French poststructuralism, a dash of feminism, and more than a hint of Heidegger, it might have the following qualities.

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