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The Re-Enchantment of the World - Secular Magic in a Rational Age (Paperback)
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The Re-Enchantment of the World - Secular Magic in a Rational Age (Paperback)
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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departed convictions, and to do so without invoking superseded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.
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