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The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences
Jason Ananda Josephson Storm
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Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, 5 figures. BIC Classification: HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason A. 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 ... Read more
A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason A. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226403366
SKU
V9780226403366
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About Jason Ananda Josephson Storm
Jason A. Josephson-Storm is associate professor in and chair of the Department of Religion at Williams College. He is the author of The Invention of Religion in Japan, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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