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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Landy, Joshua, 1965-, Saler, Michael T., 1960-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:	Magic > Social aspects. Marvelous, The > Social aspects. Rationalism. Secularism. Thought and thinking. Civilization, Modern.

Table of Contents:

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 twentieth-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.