{"product_id":"the-re-enchantment-of-the-world-joshua-landy-9780804752992","title":"The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age","description":"\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alongside this one, an overwhelming urge to fill the vacuum left by departed convictions, and to do so without invoking superseded belief systems.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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joshua Landy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804752990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804752992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/21\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2009 pg. 11","brand":"Joshua Landy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065146749183,"sku":"9780804752992","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0b24fd73-560b-49a9-bd15-b787fdf8ea64.jpg?v=1768673302","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-re-enchantment-of-the-world-joshua-landy-9780804752992","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}