The Philosophy of Disenchantment
Title | The Philosophy of Disenchantment PDF eBook |
Author | Edgar Saltus |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | Pessimism |
ISBN |
The Philosophy of Disenchantment
Title | The Philosophy of Disenchantment PDF eBook |
Author | Edgar Saltus |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | Pessimism |
ISBN |
The Philosophy of Disenchantment
Title | The Philosophy of Disenchantment PDF eBook |
Author | Edgar Saltus |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 2015-05-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781512098457 |
"The Philosophy of Disenchantment" from Edgar Saltus. American writer (1855-1921).
The Myth of Disenchantment
Title | The Myth of Disenchantment PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Ananda Josephson Storm |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 2017-05-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022640336X |
A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppress magic have failed more often than they have succeeded. Even the human sciences have been more enchanted than is commonly supposed. But that raises the question: How did a magical, spiritualist, mesmerized Europe ever convince itself that it was disenchanted? Josephson-Storm traces the history of the myth of disenchantment in the births of philosophy, anthropology, sociology, folklore, psychoanalysis, and religious studies. Ironically, the myth of mythless modernity formed at the very time that Britain, France, and Germany were in the midst of occult and spiritualist revivals. Indeed, Josephson-Storm argues, these disciplines’ founding figures were not only aware of, but profoundly enmeshed in, the occult milieu; and it was specifically in response to this burgeoning culture of spirits and magic that they produced notions of a disenchanted world. By providing a novel history of the human sciences and their connection to esotericism, The Myth of Disenchantment dispatches with most widely held accounts of modernity and its break from the premodern past.
The Limits of Disenchantment
Title | The Limits of Disenchantment PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Dews |
Publisher | Verso |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9781859840221 |
Explores some of the most urgent problems confronting contemporary European thought: the status of the subject after postmodernism, the ethical dimensions of critical theory, the encounter between psychoanalysis and philosophy, and the possibilities of non-foundational metaphysical thought.
The Philosophy of Reenchantment
Title | The Philosophy of Reenchantment PDF eBook |
Author | Michiel Meijer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2020-10-27 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1000210170 |
This book presents a philosophical study of the idea of reenchantment and its merits in the interrelated fields of philosophical anthropology, ethics, and ontology. It features chapters from leading contributors to the debate about reenchantment, including Charles Taylor, John Cottingham, Akeel Bilgrami, and Jane Bennett. The chapters examine neglected and contested notions such as enchantment, transcendence, interpretation, attention, resonance, and the sacred or reverence-worthy—notions that are crucial to human self-understanding but have no place in a scientific worldview. They also explore the significance of adopting a reenchanting perspective for debates on major concepts such as nature, naturalism, God, ontology, and disenchantment. Taken together, they demonstrate that there is much to be gained from working with a more substantial and affirmative concept of reenchantment, understood as a fundamental existential orientation towards what is seen as meaningful and of value. The Philosophy of Reenchantment will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in philosophy—especially those working in moral philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, theology, religious studies, and sociology.
The Disenchantment of Art
Title | The Disenchantment of Art PDF eBook |
Author | Rainer Rochlitz |
Publisher | Guilford Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 1998-02-15 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780898624076 |
Fifty years after his death, Walter Benjamin remains one of the great cultural critics of this century. Despite his renown, however, Benjamin's philosophical ideas remain elusive--often considered a disaggregated set of thoughts not meant to cohere. This book provides a more systematic perspective on Benjamin, laying claim to his status as a philosopher and situating his work in the context of its time. Exploring Benjamin's theory of language, spoken and nonspoken, Rainer Rochlitz shows how Benjamin reconceptualized traditional ideas of language, art, and history. Offering an expansive assessment of a unique twentieth-century thinker, this volume provides an indispensable guide for readers of Benjamin's recently released collected works.