{"product_id":"magic-science-religion-9789004357105","title":"Magic Science Religion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMagic Science Religion explores surprising intersections among the three meaning-making and world-making practices named in the title.  Through colorful examples, the book reveals circuitous ways that social, cultural and natural systems connect, enabling real kinds of magic to operate. Among the many case studies are accounts of how an eighteenth-century actor gave his audience goosebumps; how painters, poets, and pool sharks use nonlinearity in working their magics; how the first vertebrates gained consciousness; how plants fine-tuned human color vision; and the necessarily magical element of activism that builds on the conviction that \"another future is possible\" while working to push self-fulfilling prophecy into political action.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments. About this Book  1 Introduction  1 All or Nothing?   2 Kindness    ASIDE: The Two-Million-Dollar Comma   ASIDE: Sufficiently Magical Technologies   ASIDE: Our Gods  3 Cruelty    ASIDE: Ghostly Causality   ASIDE: Durable Cruelties  4 Beginning, Again    ASIDE: Chaos Invoked  5 The Freedom Not to Choose    ASIDE: No Atheists in Foxholes   ASIDE: Blake on Firm Perswasion   ASIDE: Metafictional Magic: The Writer’s Will   ASIDE: Shapely Sentences   ASIDE: Beckett Meets Twilight Zone, Glass-Half-Full Version  2 Complex Systems in a Nutshell  1 Horror Movie Reboot   2 Interpositivity    ASIDE: Interpositivity  3 Becoming a System   4 Creatures of Light    ASIDE: Transformative for Whom?   ASIDE: Plant Sorcery  5 Tornados, Whirlpools, and Fires    ASIDE: iii   ASIDE: Co-evolution  6 Leveled    ASIDE: On being born too early and dying too late   ASIDE: Up Around the Bend  7 A Personifying Universe of Stretchy Things   8 Dynamism    ASIDE: One Plus One Equals Infinity  9 Magic, but No Black Boxes    ASIDE: The T-Shirt Version  10 Wildness    ASIDE: Pet Resemblance via Social Theory  3 Magic by Example  1 Failed Magic: Modernist Heaven (and Hell)  2 Placebo Magic    ASIDE: Pregnancy via Magic   ASIDE: Following the Scent  3 Mirror Magic   4 Biting Game   5 Dog Whisperer   6 Conclusion   4 Future Perfect  1 The Gettysburg Address as a Magical Speech Act   2 Pool, Poetry, Prose, and Painting    ASIDE: Dr. Livingston’s Magical Bank-Shot Visualizer  3 Meteors, Messiahs, and Migraines    ASIDE: On This Rock I Build My Church   ASIDE: Falling Off a Log  4 Magical Militarism   5 Four Asides    ASIDE: Dr. Livingston’s Time Travel 101   ASIDE: A Somewhat Rationalizing Account of Mystical Nonviolence   ASIDE: A Somewhat Mysticizing Account of Rationalist Nonviolence   ASIDE: Four Scholars  5 What is Religion?  1 A Fuzzy Set   2 Magic, Science, and Religion Coevolve   3 Restoring the Chaos   4 Rain Dance    ASIDE: From Flow  5 Providence, via Vico    ASIDE: Systematizers Systematized  6 God 3.5B (A Nearsighted Evolutionary Panorama)  1 Salience to Sentience   2 Primordial Systemhood Membership Narratives    ASIDE: Law and Order  3 The Myth of the Acquisition-of-Consciousness Moment   4 Use of the Terms I and We  5 Cis-Systems → Trans-Systems   6 First Caveat: Characters   7 Plant and Animal Intelligence   8 Learning and Evolution from a Systems Perspective   9 Second Caveat: Plot   10 Especially Informative Postinfundibular Amphioxus Hypothalamus Neuropile   11 The Holy Grail    ASIDE: Neuro-X  12 Teamlikeness    ASIDE: Play and Teamlikeness   ASIDE: Three-Ring Circuits  13 Conclusion   7 Blake Magic  1 Famous in Heaven    ASIDE: No Success Like Failure  2 Blake Magic   3 Auguries    ASIDE: Prophecies  4 Angel Kings   5 Magic in the Current Conjuncture   6 Five Asides    ASIDE: Black Lives Matter and Judith Butler   ASIDE: An Elegant Pose   ASIDE: Ritual Retraction   ASIDE: Obscurity   ASIDE: Butterfly Tornado  References Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210741506391,"sku":"9789004357105","price":46.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/magic-science-religion-9789004357105","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}