The Philosophy of Disenchantment
Title | The Philosophy of Disenchantment PDF eBook |
Author | Edgar Saltus |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | Pessimism |
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The Philosophy of Disenchantment
Title | The Philosophy of Disenchantment PDF eBook |
Author | Edgar Saltus |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | Pessimism |
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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 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 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 Problem of Disenchantment
Title | The Problem of Disenchantment PDF eBook |
Author | Egil Asprem |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 662 |
Release | 2018-05-31 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1438469942 |
Max Weber famously characterized the ongoing process of intellectualization and rationalization that separates the natural world from the divine (by excluding magic and value from the realm of science, and reason and fact from the realm of religion) as the "disenchantment of the world." Egil Asprem argues for a conceptual shift in how we view this key narrative of modernity. Instead of a sociohistorical process of disenchantment that produces increasingly rational minds, Asprem maintains that the continued presence of "magic" and "enchantment" in people's everyday experience of the world created an intellectual problem for those few who were socialized to believe that nature should contain no such incalculable mysteries. Drawing on a wide range of early twentieth-century primary sources from theoretical physics, occultism, embryology, radioactivity, psychical research, and other fields, Asprem casts the intellectual life of high modernity as a synchronic struggle across conspicuously different fields that shared surprisingly similar intellectual problems about value, meaning, and the limits of knowledge.
The Anatomy of Negation
Title | The Anatomy of Negation PDF eBook |
Author | Edgar Saltus |
Publisher | |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 1886 |
Genre | Pessimism |
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