Research Catalog

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

Title
The re-enchantment of the world [electronic resource] : secular magic in a rational age / edited by Joshua Landy and Michael Saler.
Publication
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.

Available Online

  • Available from home with a valid library card
  • Available onsite at NYPL

Details

Additional Authors
  • Landy, Joshua, 1965-
  • Saler, Michael T., 1960-
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 387 p.) : ill.
Uniform Title
Re-enchantment of the world (Online)
Subject
  • Magic > Social aspects
  • Marvelous, The > Social aspects
  • Rationalism
  • Secularism
  • Thought and thinking
  • Civilization, Modern
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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 20th-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.
LCCN
2008022442
OCLC
ssj0000920360
Title
The re-enchantment of the world [electronic resource] : secular magic in a rational age / edited by Joshua Landy and Michael Saler.
Imprint
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Landy, Joshua, 1965-
Saler, Michael T., 1960-
View in Legacy Catalog