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The Re-Enchantment of the World - Secular Magic in a Rational Age (Hardcover)
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The Re-Enchantment of the World - Secular Magic in a Rational Age (Hardcover)
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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invoking superseded belief systems.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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