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The Myth of Disenchantment

2017-05-16 History
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Release : 2017-05-16
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Myth of Disenchantment by : Jason Ananda Josephson Storm

Download or read book The Myth of Disenchantment written by Jason Ananda Josephson Storm. This book was released on 2017-05-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Disenchantment

2019 Graphic novels
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Release : 2019
Genre : Graphic novels
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Book Synopsis Disenchantment by : Matt Groening

Download or read book Disenchantment written by Matt Groening. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Charisma and Disenchantment: The Vocation Lectures

2020-02-04 Social Science
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Release : 2020-02-04
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Charisma and Disenchantment: The Vocation Lectures by : Max Weber

Download or read book Charisma and Disenchantment: The Vocation Lectures written by Max Weber. This book was released on 2020-02-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of two celebrated lectures on politics, academia, and the disenchantment of the world. The German sociologist Max Weber is one of the most venturesome, stimulating, and influential theorists of the modern condition. Among his most significant works are the so-called vocation lectures, published shortly after the end of World War I and delivered at the invitation of a group of student activists. The question the students asked Weber to address was simple and haunting: In a modern world characterized by the division of labor, economic expansion, and unrelenting change, was it still possible to consider an academic or political career as a genuine calling? In response Weber offered his famous diagnosis of “the disenchantment of the world,” along with a challenging account of the place of morality in the classroom and in research. In his second lecture he introduced the notion of political charisma, assigning it a central role in the modern state, even as he recognized that politics is more than anything “a slow and difficult drilling of holes into hard boards.” Damion Searls’s new translation brings out the power and nuance of these celebrated lectures. Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon’s introduction describes their historical and biographical background, reception, and influence. Weber’s effort to rethink the idea of a public calling at the start of the tumultuous twentieth century is revealed to be as timely and stirring as ever.

The Problem of Disenchantment

2018-05-31 Religion
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Release : 2018-05-31
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The Problem of Disenchantment by : Egil Asprem

Download or read book The Problem of Disenchantment written by Egil Asprem. This book was released on 2018-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Discourse on Disenchantment

1993-01-01 Political Science
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Release : 1993-01-01
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis A Discourse on Disenchantment by : Gilbert G. Germain

Download or read book A Discourse on Disenchantment written by Gilbert G. Germain. This book was released on 1993-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first full-length study of the ongoing debate over the status of our "disenchanted" world--a world stripped of mysterious and supernatural forces by the demythologizing power of reason and modern science. It draws together for the first time the writings of various theorists on this theme, such as Georg Lukacs, Theodor Adorno, and Jürgen Habermas, providing a coherent overview of an evolving dialogue, as well as Germain's own evaluation of the disenchantment problematic.

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