The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse, 1900-1939

by Egil Asprem

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438469926
• ISBN13: 9781438469928
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 646 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"