Moderne Magie: Orte des Okkulten und die Epistemologie des Übersinnlichen, 1880-1930

Autor(en)

Andrea Braidt, Alexander Geppert

Abstrakt

This article serves as a thematic, conceptual and historiographical introduction to the entire volume. A brief presentation of its three central questions (the representation of the supernatural in the media, the contingent boundary between the sensuous and the extrasensory, and the spatial conditions of the occult in an urban context) is followed by an epistemological examination of four heuristical concepts (occultism and science, spiritism and belief, mysticism and experience, esotericism and knowledge) and a discussion of the volume’s four leitmotifs (religion versus science, personae versus networks, this world versus the next, metropole versus province). Rather than insisting on an analysis of the occult and its urban sites in the context of modernity, a more productive approach explores questions of the epistemology of the occult.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft

Externe Organisation(en)

New York University

Journal

Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften

Band

14

Seiten

7-36

ISSN

1016-765X

Publikationsdatum

2003

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

605004 Kulturwissenschaft

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/3603de66-0403-42c6-b7b4-7077712b4d53