The Philosophers' Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination: A History of the Human Imagination - Tapa blanda

How is it that the same myths are perpetuated through different cultures at different times? Could it be something to do with the universal imagination? This is a book about folklore, myth, magic and philosophy throughout the ages, peopled with poets, visionaries, demons and shape-shifters. It depicts a world where the power of the imagination is key. Reaching back as far as the Egyptians, Orphics and Pythagoreans, and extending up to the present day via the Renaissance Magi, the Romantics, Jung and T.S. Eliot, it makes a powerful case for a mythic, poetic way of looking at the world.

Patrick Harpur has written two novels and edited a modern alchemical journal. He is the author of DAIMONIC REALITY [Viking/Arkana]. He lives in Dorset.