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Magic in the Modern World - Strategies of Repression and Legitimization (Paperback)
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Magic in the Modern World - Strategies of Repression and Legitimization (Paperback)
Series: Magic in History
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This collection of essays considers the place of magic in the
modern world, first by exploring the ways in which modernity has
been defined in explicit opposition to magic and superstition, and
then by illuminating how modern proponents of magic have worked to
legitimize their practices through an overt embrace of evolving
forms such as esotericism and supernaturalism. Taking a two-track
approach, this book explores the complex dynamics of the
construction of the modern self and its relation to the modern
preoccupation with magic. Essays examine how modern "rational"
consciousness is generated and maintained and how proponents of
both magical and scientific traditions rationalize evidence to fit
accepted orthodoxy. This book also describes how people unsatisfied
with the norms of modern subjectivity embrace various forms of
magic-and the methods these modern practitioners use to legitimate
magic in the modern world. A compelling assessment of magic from
the early modern period to today, Magic in the Modern World shows
how, despite the dominant culture's emphatic denial of their
validity, older forms of magic persist and develop while new forms
of magic continue to emerge. In addition to the editors,
contributors include Egil Asprem, Erik Davis, Megan Goodwin, Dan
Harms, Adam Jortner, and Benedek Lang.
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