{"product_id":"the-re-enchantment-of-the-world-secular-magic-in-a-rational-age-hardcover","title":"The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoshua Landy\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMichael Saler\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Re-Enchantment of the World\u003c\/i\u003e is an interdisciplinary volume that challenges the long-prevailing view of modernity as \"disenchanted.\" There is of course something to the widespread idea, so memorably put into words by Max Weber, that modernity is characterized by the \"progressive disenchantment of the world.\" Yet what is less often recognized is the fact that a powerful counter-tendency runs alongside this one, an overwhelming urge to fill the vacuum left by departed convictions, and to do so without invoking superseded belief systems. In fact, modernity produces an \u003ci\u003earray\u003c\/i\u003e of strategies for re-enchantment, each fully compatible with secular rationality. It has to, because God has many \"aspects\"--or to put it in more secular terms, because traditional religion offers so much in so many domains. From one thinker to the next, the question of just what, in religious enchantment, needs to be replaced in a secular world receives an entirely different answer. Now, for the first time, many of these strategies are laid out in a single volume, with contributions by specialists in literature, history, and philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoshua Landy\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of French at Stanford University and the author of \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust\u003c\/i\u003e (2004). Michael Saler is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Avant-Garde in Interwar England: Medieval Modernism and the London Underground\u003c\/i\u003e (1999).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 408\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 21, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46946097266863,"sku":"9780804752992","price":188.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/7314\/1679\/files\/hjpa_dQaZB9780804752992.webp?v=1779501049","url":"https:\/\/valuevaultclub.myshopify.com\/products\/the-re-enchantment-of-the-world-secular-magic-in-a-rational-age-hardcover","provider":"Value Vault Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}