Curious Visions of Modernity: Enchantment, Magic, and the Sacred

by David L. Martin

Book Overview

Haunted by a secret knowledge and a repressed enchantment, Western rationality is not what it seems.

Rembrandt's famous painting of an anatomy lesson, the shrunken head of an Australian indigenous leader, an aerial view of Paris from a balloon: all are windows to enchantment, curiosities that illuminate something shadowy and forgotten lurking behind the neat facade of a rational world. In Curious Visions of Modernity, David Martin unpacks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262529467
• ISBN13: 9780262529464
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher