The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse 1900 - 1939 - Paperback
by Egil Asprem
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Availability:In StockContributor:Egil AspremSeries:Numen BookTheme:Chronological Period/20th Century, Chronological Period/Modern, Religious Orientation/Islamic, Religious Orientation/Jewish, Topical/New AgePublish date:10/27/2016Pages:632
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004336902ISBN-10:9004336907UPC:9789004336902Book Category:Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, Europe, ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.20 x 6.10 x 1.60 inchesWeight:1.68Product ID:SC75WVN8EJ
The Problem of Disenchantment offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the intellectual history of science, religion, and "the occult" in the early 20th century. By developing a new approach to Max Weber's famous idea of a "disenchantment of the world", and drawing on an impressively diverse set of sources, Egil Asprem opens up a broad field of inquiry that connects the histories of science, religion, philosophy, and Western esotericism.
Parapsychology, occultism, and the modern natural sciences are usually viewed as distinct cultural phenomena with highly variable intellectual credentials. In spite of this view, Asprem demonstrates that all three have met with similar intellectual problems related to the intelligibility of nature, the relation of facts to values, and the dynamic of immanence and transcendence, and solved them in comparable terms.
Parapsychology, occultism, and the modern natural sciences are usually viewed as distinct cultural phenomena with highly variable intellectual credentials. In spite of this view, Asprem demonstrates that all three have met with similar intellectual problems related to the intelligibility of nature, the relation of facts to values, and the dynamic of immanence and transcendence, and solved them in comparable terms.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004336902ISBN-10:9004336907UPC:9789004336902Book Category:Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, Europe, ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.20 x 6.10 x 1.60 inchesWeight:1.68Product ID:SC75WVN8EJ
Egil Asprem, Ph.D. 2013, University of Amsterdam, is postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Arguing with Angels: Enochian Magic and Modern Occulture (SUNY Press, 2012), co-editor (with Kennet Granholm) of Contemporary Esotericism, and has published extensively on the intersection of religion, science, esotericism and magic.
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