History of the CONCEPT of MAGIC with Dr Bernd-Christian Otto

#magick #esoteric #witchcraft CONNECT & SUPPORT💖 - WEBSITE & NEWSLETTER 💌 https://drangelapuca.com/#newsletter - BECOME MY PATRON! 🎩 https://www.patreon.com/angelapuca - ONE-OFF DONATIONS 💰 https://paypal.me/angelasymposium - JOIN MEMBERSHIPS 👥 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPSbip_LX2AxbGeAQfLp-Ig/join - MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL https://www.youtube.com/@drangelapuca/featured - MY STORE 🛍 https://drangelapuca.com/store - MY MERCH 👕 https://drangelapuca.creator-spring.com/ - Video Trascripts https://www.innersymposium.study/ 💬 FOLLOW ME👣 - YouTube (@drangelapuca)🌟 - Instagram (drangelapuca) 📸 - TikTok (Angela's Symposium) 🎵 - Twitter (@angelapuca11) 🐦 - Facebook (Dr Angela Puca) 👥 00:00 Intro to Dr Bernd-Christian Otto 02:06 How the understanding of Magic developed 11:18 Stephen Skinner & Goetia 12:05 Fluidity of Western Learned Magic 12:45 Practitioners are not irrational 14:00 Witchcraft vs Ceremonial Magic 15:20 Witch Hunts & Western Learned Magic 17:45 Magic as a Floating Signifier 23:53 Resilience of Magic, why does magic still exist? 33:00 Magic is now Positive 35:25 The New Zeitgeist of Magic 39:45 Pop Culture and Witch Aesthetics 45:10 Academic Field of Esotericism BECOME MY PATRON! www.patreon.com/angelapuca ONE-OFF DONATIONS paypal.me/angelasymposium JOIN MEMBERSHIPS https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPSbip_LX2AxbGeAQfLp-Ig/join FOLLOW ME: Facebook (Angela's Symposium), Instagram (angela_symposium), Twitter (@angelapuca11), TikTok (Angela's Symposium). Dr Bernd-Christian Otto Contact Details: [email protected] https://uni-erfurt.academia.edu/BerndChristianOtto?from_navbar=true https://www.uni-erfurt.de/max-weber-kolleg/personen/alumni/ehemalige-mitglieder-seit-2018/pd-dr-bernd-christian-otto REFERENCES PROVIDED BY DR OTTO (1) Otto, Bernd-Christian, Magie. Rezeptions- und diskursgeschichtliche Analysen von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit, Berlin: De Gruyter 2011. https://amzn.to/3kBKNFK  My PhD book on the conceptual history of magic (2) Otto, Bernd-Christian and Stausberg, Michael, Defining Magic: A Reader, London: Routledge 2013. https://amzn.to/39upVtZ  A reader with important historical and academic sources on how to define and theorise magic (3) Bellingradt, Daniel and Otto, Bernd-Christian, Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe. The Clandestine Trade in Illegal Book Collections, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan 2017. https://amzn.to/2XN73Em  A co-authored monograph on the extensive collection of magical manuscripts today stored in Leipzig university library (Ms. Leipzig Cod. Mag. 1-142) (4) Otto, Bernd-Christian and Johannsen, Dirk (eds.), Fictional practice: Magic, narration, and the power of imagination, Leiden: Brill 2021. https://amzn.to/3i2uKiR  A NEW co-edited anthology on the relationship between fiction and practice in the history of magic (5) Otto, Bernd-Christian, “Historicising ‘Western learned magic’: preliminary remarks”, in: Aries 16 (2016), 161–240.  Maybe the most important text I have ever written, a programmatic article on how to conceptualise and historicise ‘Western learned magic’ (6) Otto, Bernd-Christian, “The Illuminates of Thanateros and the Institutionalization of Religious Individualization”, in: Martin Fuchs et al. (eds.), Religious Individualisation: Historical Dimensions and Comparative Perspectives, Berlin: de Gruyter 2019, 759-96.  An article on Chaos magick and the ‘ice magick war’ Further references mentioned during the interview: Hanegraaff, Wouter J., “How magic survived the disenchantment of the world”, in: Religion 33/4 (2003), 357–380. Luhrmann, Tanya, Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1989. https://amzn.to/2XN7xKG Partridge, Christopher, The Re-enchantment of the West: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralisation, Popular Culture, and Occulture, 2 vols., London: T & T Clark International 2004/05. https://amzn.to/3i2RsHE