2024 IPH Junior Comp Exam Lecture featuring Brian Copenhaver
Lawn Care, Magic and the Art of Poetry Today
Brian Copenhaver is the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and History, former Provost of UCLA’s College of Letters and Science, and author of Magic in Western Culture: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment.
Brian teaches and writes about philosophy, religion and science in late medieval and early modern Europe. Copenhaver studies magic and related beliefs and practices – astrology, demonology, divination, Kabbalah– as parts of normative philosophy and science as they were a few centuries ago. He also studies the ancient Greek and Latin Hermetica.