The Problem of Disenchantment

Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse 1900 - 1939
XII, 631 Pp., Index Auflage
ISBN: 978-90-04-33690-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 147, 632 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1678 g

Reihe: Numen Book Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Asprem, Egil

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Okkultismus und andere religiöse Praktiken
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Religion & Wissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Eklektizismus, Esoterik, Anthroposophie, Theosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Wissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

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.