Storm Jason Ananda Josephson
Storm Jason Ananda Josephson - The Myth Of Disenchantment Magic Modernity And The Birth Of The Human Sciences - Paperback
Storm Jason Ananda Josephson - The Myth Of Disenchantment Magic Modernity And The Birth Of The Human Sciences - Paperback
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Description: 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 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.
Title: The Myth Of Disenchantment Magic Modernity And The Birth Of The Human Sciences
Author(s): Storm Jason Ananda Josephson
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226403366
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 5/16/2017
Category: Philosophy Of Religion
Description: 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 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.
Title: The Myth Of Disenchantment Magic Modernity And The Birth Of The Human Sciences
Author(s): Storm Jason Ananda Josephson
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226403366
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 5/16/2017
Category: Philosophy Of Religion
