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Lévitation : La science, mythe et magie de la suspension, couverture rigide par Adey, Pe...

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ISBN
9781780237374
Book Title
Levitation : the Science, Myth and Magic of Suspension
Item Length
8.2 in
Publisher
Reaktion Books, The Limited
Publication Year
2017
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1.1 in
Author
Peter Adey
Genre
Body, Mind & Spirit, History
Topic
Parapsychology / General, General
Item Width
6 in
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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Levitation tells the peculiar story of those who have dreamed, believed, or practiced levitation through history, whether they were successful or not. Levitation couldbe thought of best as a pre- and parallel history of aviation, but it is not reallyabout flights of the aeronautical kind. Instead, the book tracks the long-standing belief that people can actually float in the air, relatively unaided.Early modern scientists believed in the force of levity as an opposing forceto gravity; traditional societies have held deep-rooted shamanic traditionsof spirit- and dream-flight through storytelling. Ancient religious movementshave long believed in the power of ascetic saints to hover in sublime ecstasy.Magicians and mesmerists have employed the tricks of stage, cinema, andthe enigma of Eastern traditions to convince audiences of their power to liftthrough thought alone. And science-fiction novelists and urban plannershave speculated on floating cities hovering high above the earth. Many artistshave experimented with levitation too, from the Surrealists to Yves Klein.In this book, Peter Adey explores the idea of levitation within our cultural,scientific, and spiritual lives. From science to illustration, poetry, philosophy,law, technology, and the wider popular, spiritual, and visual imagination,Levitation casts the levitator as a far more vulnerable figure than we mayhave thought.

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Publisher
Reaktion Books, The Limited
ISBN-10
1780237375
ISBN-13
9781780237374
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features

Book Title
Levitation : the Science, Myth and Magic of Suspension
Author
Peter Adey
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Parapsychology / General, General
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Body, Mind & Spirit, History
Number of Pages
272 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.2 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
6 in

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Lc Classification Number
Bf1385
Reviews
This wide-ranging and well illustrated study is not so much about incidents of levitation as about the ideas of floating, rising up, and moving through the air, drawing examples from philosophy, religion, magic, science and popular culture. Adey writes engagingly as he reveals the remarkable depth and extent of these ideas, how they have become embedded in human society, and how they have manifested or been expressed. . . . From the power of ascetic saints and surrealist art to flying superheroes and astronauts in null-gravity, through today's CGI tricks with camera or computer, and even further into the future with hovering cities, Adey keeps you thinking., Wonderfully digressive. . . . Brilliant. . . . A phantasmagorical cultural history. . . . As sly and strange as its subject, Adey's book is an ambiguous, allusive, and fascinating manual of unassisted flight, and I only wish I'd had it to hand when I was a ten-year-old would-be levitator., Buddha's vertical takeoff does not appear in Adey's Levitation, but scores of other elevations do. Adey's book is exhilaratingly wide-ranging and it is crammed with the sorts of beguiling oddities that would have made Buddha tut in disapproval., "An exploration of the cultural and political meaning of floating and levitating in the air, Levitation is an extraordinary book. Ranging across philosophy, theology, popular culture, and science, the book is a sublime revelation of how the air, and what floats in it and on it, have shaped human societies. A mesmerizing and beautifully illustrated book."  , An exploration of the cultural and political meaning of floating and levitating in the air, Levitation is an extraordinary book. Ranging across philosophy, theology, popular culture, and science, the book is a sublime revelation of how the air, and what floats in it and on it, have shaped human societies. A mesmerizing and beautifully illustrated book., Adey's aerial archive is vast; his insights, compelling. . . . Full of delightful discoveries. . . . Levitation is something all too often missing from academic publishing: a sourcebook for the imagination itself.
Copyright Date
2017
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
133.92
Dewey Edition
23

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