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Selected as one of The Tablet's Books of the Year 2021
Throughout history, different civilisations have given rise to many alternative worlds. Each of them was the enactment of a unique story about the structure of reality, the rhythm of time and the range of what it is possible to think and to do in the course of a life. Cosmological stories, however, are fragile things. As soon as they lose their ring of truth and their significance for living, the worlds that they brought into existence disintegrate. New and alien worlds emerge from their ruins.
Federico Campagna explores the twilight of our contemporary notion of reality, and the fading of the cosmological story that belonged to the civilisation of Westernised Modernity. How are we to face the challenge of leaving a fertile cultural legacy to those who will come after the end of our future? How can we help the creation of new worlds out of the ruins of our own?
Federico Campagna
Federico Campagna is a young Italian philosopher based in London. His latest books with Bloomsbury are Otherworlds: Mediterranean lessons on escaping History (2025), Prophetic Culture: Recreation for adolescents (2021), and Technic and Magic: The reconstruction of reality (2018).
He is associate fellow at the Warburg Institute, lecturer and tutor at the Royal College of Art, and has lectured in international universities and academies around the world.
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