The Problem of Disenchantment Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse 1900 1939 1st Edition by Egil Asprem ISBN 9781438469928 1438469926

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ISBN 10:  1438469926

ISBN 13: 9781438469928

Author:  Egil Asprem

 Challenges the conventional view of a “disenchanted” and secular modernity, and recovers the complex relation that exists between science, religion, and esotericism in the modern world.
Max Weber famously characterized the ongoing process of intellectualization and rationalization that separates the natural world from the divine (by excluding magic and value from the realm of science, and reason and fact from the realm of religion) as the “disenchantment of the world.” Egil Asprem argues for a conceptual shift in how we view this key narrative of modernity. Instead of a sociohistorical process of disenchantment that produces increasingly rational minds, Asprem maintains that the continued presence of “magic” and “enchantment” in people’s everyday experience of the world created an intellectual problem for those few who were socialized to believe that nature should contain no such incalculable mysteries. Drawing on a wide range of early twentieth-century primary sources from theoretical physics, occultism, embryology, radioactivity, psychical research, and other fields, Asprem casts the intellectual life of high modernity as a synchronic struggle across conspicuously different fields that shared surprisingly similar intellectual problems about value, meaning, and the limits of knowledge.

Table of contents: 

PART 1: From Process to Problem

Chapter One: From Process to Problem
Chapter Two: Science as Worldview

PART 2: New Natural Theologies

Chapter Three: Brave New World: An Introduction to Part Two
Chapter Four: Physical Science in a Modern Mode
Chapter Five: The Meaning of Life: Mechanism and Purpose in the Sciences of Life and Mind
Chapter Six: Five Schools of Natural Theology: Reconciling Science and Religion

PART 3: Laboratories of Enchantment

Chapter Seven: Against Agnosticism: Psychical Research and the Naturalisation of the Supernatural
Chapter Eight: Laboratories of Enchantment: Parapsychology in Search of a Paradigm
Chapter Nine: Professionals Out of the Ordinary: How Parapsychology Became a University Discipline

PART 4: Esoteric Epistemologies

Chapter Ten: Esoteric Epistemologies
Chapter Eleven: The Problems of a Gnostic Science: The Case of Theosophy’s Occult Chemistry
Chapter Twelve: Perceiving Higher Worlds: Two Perspectives

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