Prophetic Culture (Buch von 2021)

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Federico Campagna: Prophetic Culture. Recreation for Adolescents. Bloomsbury, 2021.

Wird in At Work in the Ruins zitiert und war Inspiration für dessen Titel.

Klappentext

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 our of the ruins of our own?