The Re-Enchantment of the World - Secular Magic in a Rational Age (Paperback)

The Re-Enchantment of the World is an interdisciplinary volume that challenges the long-prevailing view of modernity as "disenchanted." There is of course something to the widespread idea, so memorably put into words by Max Weber, that modernity is characterized by the "progressive disenchantment of the world." Yet what is less often recognized is the fact that a powerful counter-tendency runs alongside this one, an overwhelming urge to fill the vacuum left by departed convictions, and to do so without invoking superseded belief systems. In fact, modernity produces an array of strategies for re-enchantment, each fully compatible with secular rationality. It has to, because God has many "aspects"—or to put it in more secular terms, because traditional religion offers so much in so many domains. From one thinker to the next, the question of just what, in religious enchantment, needs to be replaced in a secular world receives an entirely different answer. Now, for the first time, many of these strategies are laid out in a single volume, with contributions by specialists in literature, history, and philosophy.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2021
First published:	2009
Editors:	Joshua Landy • Michael Saler
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	408
ISBN-13:	978-1-5036-2894-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Philosophy of religion > General Books > History > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Philosophy of religion > General Promotions
LSN:	1-5036-2894-9
Barcode:	9781503628946

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