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The re-enchantment of the world : secular magic in a rational age /

This is an interdisciplinary volume that challenges the long-prevailing view of modernity as 'disenchanted'.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Landy, Joshua, 1965-, Saler, Michael T., 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the varieties of modern enchantment / Joshua Landy and Michael Saler
  • "Broken knowledge" / Andrea Nightingale
  • Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered : William James's feeling of 'if' / Linda Simon
  • Waste lands and silly valleys : Wittgenstein, mass culture, and re-enchantment / Michael Saler
  • Homeless gardens / Robert Harrison
  • The modernist imagination of place and the politics of regionalism : Puig i Cadafalch and early 20th-century Barcelona / Maiken Umbach
  • Modern magic : Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin and Stéphane Mallarmé / Joshua Landy
  • The rocambolesque and the modern enchantment of popular fiction / Robin Walz
  • "Lost in focused intensity" : spectator sports and strategies of re-enchantment / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
  • Permanent re-enchantments : on some literary uses of the supernatural from early empiricism to modern aesthetics / Nicholas Paige
  • Gnosophilia : Bloch, Benjamin, and the authority of counter-tradition / Daniel Jiro Tanaka
  • The birth of ideology from the spirit of myth : Georges Sorel among the idéologues / Dan Edelstein
  • Nietzsche on redemption and transfiguration / R. Lanier Anderson
  • Epilogue : what hearing knows / Michel Serres.