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Problem Of Disenchantment eBook

Scientific Naturalism And Esoteric Discourse, 1900-1939

by Egil Asprem
language: english
Publisher: State University of New York Press, May of 2018 ‧
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Challenges the conventional view of a "disenchanted" and secular modernity, and recovers the complex relation that exists between science, religion, and esotericism in the modern world.

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.

Problem Of Disenchantment

Scientific Naturalism And Esoteric Discourse, 1900-1939

by Egil Asprem

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ISBN: 9781438469942
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date: May of 2018
Language: English
Format: eBook
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Collection: Suny Series In Western Esoteric Traditions
Categories: eBooks in English > Faith & Religion > Science and History of Religions
eBooks in English > Faith & Religion > Theological Studies
EAN: 9781438469942
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