Culture and Enchantment

by Mark A. Schneider

Book Overview

Max Weber viewed modern life as disenchanted, an arena from which scientific inquiry had banished magic. In contrast, Mark Schneider argues intriguingly that enchantment--the sense that we are confronted by inexplicable phenomena--persists in the world today, although it has shifted from the natural to the cultural arena. Culture and Enchantment shows that students of culture today operate in social and intellectual circumstances similar to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226739287
• ISBN13: 9780226739281
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"