Prophetic Culture: Recreation For Adolescents

Federico Campagna explores the twilight of our contemporary notion of reality and the fading of the cosmological story of Westernised Modernity, and how to create new worlds out of the ruins of our own.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 17 June 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Selected as one of The Tablet's Books of the Year 2021, Federico Campagna's work explores the twilight of our contemporary notion of reality and the fading of the cosmological story that belonged to the civilisation of Westernized Modernity. How can we 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?

Throughout history, different civilizations 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 Westernized 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?

Weight: 370g
Dimension: 139 x 214 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350149625