The Problem of Disenchantment

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  • The Problem of Disenchantment Book Detail

  • Author : Egil Asprem
  • Release Date : 2018-05-31
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Genre : Religion
  • Pages : 662
  • ISBN 13 : 1438469942
  • File Size : 71,71 MB
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The Problem of Disenchantment by Egil Asprem PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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