Transfigured light [electronic resource] : philosophy, science, and the hermetic imaginary

Introduction: Ideal Objects And Their Forebears -- Ideal Objects Or History In Four Dimensions -- Ioan P. Couliano -- Continuity-deformation -- Oswald Spengler -- Expanding History : Le Goff, And The Paradigm Shift -- Hermeticism And The Postmodern -- Yates And Kuhn -- A Postmodern Science -- Figuration And The Imaginary -- W.g. Leibniz, Robert Fludd And The Metaphysics Of Light -- Spirit Of The Beehive : Hermetic Resonances In Cybernetics, Ai & Cyberspace -- Esoteric Machines -- Rarefaction Of The Imaginary -- The Singularity And Big Numbers -- Virtual Mind -- The Intelligential And The Actual -- Vortices Of The Hermetic Imaginary -- Hour Of The Swarm -- Hoffmeyer -- Hermetic Bio-semiosis -- Bateson -- Serres -- Hermetic Informatics -- Negentropy And The Intelligential World -- Conclusion -- Body Doubles -- Vertigral Architectonics : An Introduction -- The Vertigral Index Of The Subtle Body -- Origins Of The Pneumatic Economy -- The Subtle Body As Psychonaut --^ A Challenge To Cartesian Corporeality -- Corporeality And Semiosis -- Tantric Luciform Corporeity -- The Celestial Nervous System -- Conclusion -- Metaphysical Geometry, Alien Attractors And The Shape Of The World Soul -- The Progressivist Account Of Philosophy -- The Eclipse Of The Phantasmic -- The Infinite Circle -- Hieratic Space -- The Shape Of The Anima Mundi -- Arbor Vitae -- The Seven Catastrophes Of The World -- Conclusion -- The Gnostic Alchemy Of Robert Fludd -- The Radiation Economy -- Imaginal Logic Of An Ideal Object : Matter And Light -- The Philosophical Hyle And The Metaphysics Of Light -- Rays And Lights : The Gnostic Alchemy Of Truth's Golden Harrow -- Origins Of Fludd's Radiation Economy -- Hypostaseis Of Christ -- Baptismal Irradiation -- Neo-mikrokosmos -- Rays And Vibrations -- Conclusion -- The Gnostic Leibniz, Or What Is It Like To Be An Atom? -- Leibniz And His Times -- Leibniz And Alchemy -- Monads And The Alien Light -- Kabbalistic Monads --^ Knorr Von Rosenroth -- What Shape Is A Monad? -- Kabbalistic Canalisation -- Pneumatic Fields -- Conclusion. Leon Marvell. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [293]-298) And Index. An original research monograph that investigates and re examines the ideas generated by the Hermetic tradition (the hermetic imaginary) to discuss the effects of this tradition on philosophy and science. Author posits several elements of the hermetic imaginary that have been influential in modern philosophy and science. Table of Spirit of the Hermetic Resonances in Cybernetics, AI and Cyberspace Body Doubles Metaphysical Geometry, Cyber-Attractors and the Shape of the World Soul The Gnostic Chemistry of Robert Fludd The Gnostic Leibniz History Examines a Tradition .Highly recommendedan original and valuable contribution to the intellectual history of the West. Professor Paul du Quenoy, AUC History and Ideas Series, No.1