The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse 1900 - 1939 (Numen Book, Band 147) - Softcover

Asprem, Egil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9004336907 ISBN 13: 9789004336902

Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9004336907
• ISBN 13: 9789004336902
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 644
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