ISBN:
0804752990
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9780804752992
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 387 p.
,
ill.
,
24cm
DDC:
909.8
Keywords:
Magic Social aspects
;
Marvelous, The Social aspects
;
Rationalism
;
Secularism
;
Thought and thinking
;
Civilization, Modern
;
Magic Social aspects
;
Marvelous, The Social aspects
;
Rationalism
;
Secularism
;
Thought and thinking
;
Civilization, Modern
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Moderne
;
Rationalismus
;
Magie
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Formerly CIP
,
Introduction : the varieties of modern enchantment
,
"Broken knowledge"
,
Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered : William James's feeling of 'if'
,
Waste lands and silly valleys : Wittgenstein, mass culture, and re-enchantment
,
Homeless gardens
,
The modernist imagination of place and the politics of regionalism : Puig i Cadafalch and early 20th-century Barcelona
,
Modern magic : Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin and Stéphane Mallarmé
,
The rocambolesque and the modern enchantment of popular fiction
,
"Lost in focused intensity" : spectator sports and strategies of re-enchantment
,
Permanent re-enchantments : on some literary uses of the supernatural from early empiricism to modern aesthetics
,
Gnosophilia : Bloch, Benjamin, and the authority of counter-tradition
,
The birth of ideology from the spirit of myth : Georges Sorel among the idéologues
,
Nietzsche on redemption and transfiguration
,
Epilogue : what hearing knows
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