The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human ... - Jason Ananda Josephson Storm - Google Books Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More » Sign in Books Try the new Google Books Check out the new look and enjoy easier access to your favorite features Try it now No thanks Try the new Google Books Try the new Google Books My library Help Advanced Book Search Buy eBook - $17.60 Get this book in print University of Chicago Press Amazon.com Barnes&Noble.com Books-A-Million IndieBound Find in a library All sellers » The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences Jason Ananda Josephson Storm University of Chicago Press, May 18, 2017 - Religion - 400 pages 1 Review A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason Ā. 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.   Preview this book » What people are saying - Write a review We haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Contents Introduction 1 1 Enchanted Post Modernity 22 Gods Shadow 39 The Horrors of Metaphysics 177 Notes 317 Index 395 Copyright Other editions - View all The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human ... Jason Ananda Josephson Storm,Jason Ānanda Josephson Limited preview - 2017 The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human ... Jason A. Josephson-Storm No preview available - 2017 Common terms and phrases Adorno American appears argued attempt Bacon basic become belief Benjamin Books called Cambridge century chapter Chicago Christian Circle claim common conception contemporary critical critique Crowley cultural death described discussed disenchantment divine early enchantment Enlightenment Europe European example experience fairies famous Frazer Freud Friedrich George German gods Golden human Ibid idea imagine important interest kind Klages knowledge later least less letter Lévi logical look magic magicians Max Weber meaning metaphysics mind modern Moreover movement Müller mysticism myth narrative nature Neurath noted occult original paranormal period philosophy political position positivism positivists possible powers primitive produced Protestant psychical rationality reason reference rejected religion religious revival rooted scholars scientific secularization seems sense Society spirits studies suggested superstition theory theosophy things thinkers thought turn University Press Weber writings York About the author (2017) Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm is associate professor in and chair of the Department of Religion at Williams College. He is the author of The Invention of Religion in Japan, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Bibliographic information Title The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences Author Jason Ananda Josephson Storm Edition reprint Publisher University of Chicago Press, 2017 ISBN 022640353X, 9780226403533 Length 400 pages Subjects Religion  › General History / General Philosophy / Religious Religion / General Religion / Philosophy     Export Citation BiBTeX EndNote RefMan About Google Books - Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Information for Publishers - Report an issue - Help - Google Home