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100 1 _aAsprem, Egil.
245 1 4 _aThe problem of disenchantment :
_bscientific naturalism and esoteric discourse, 1900-1939 /
_cby Egil Asprem.
264 1 _aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c2014.
300 _a1 online resource (pages)
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aNumen book series : studies in the history of religions,
_x0169-8834 ;
_vv. 147
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _aPreliminary Material -- Introduction: The Limits of Reason -- 1 From Process to Problem -- 2 Science as Worldview -- 3 Brave New World: An Introduction to Part Two -- 4 Physical Science in a Modern Mode -- 5 The Meaning of Life: Mechanism and Purpose in the Sciences of Life and Mind -- 6 Five Schools of Natural Theology: Reconciling Science and Religion -- 7 Against Agnosticism: Psychical Research and the Naturalisation of the Supernatural -- 8 Laboratories of Enchantment: Parapsychology in Search of a Paradigm -- 9 Professionals Out of the Ordinary: How Parapsychology Became a University Discipline -- 10 Esoteric Epistemologies -- 11 The Problems of a Gnostic Science: The Case of Theosophy’s Occult Chemistry -- 12 Perceiving Higher Worlds: Two Perspectives -- Conclusion: Implications for the Study of Science, Religion, and Esotericism -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aThe Problem of Disenchantment offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the intellectual history of science, religion, and “the occult” in the early 20th century. By developing a new approach to Max Weber’s famous idea of a “disenchantment of the world”, and drawing on an impressively diverse set of sources, Egil Asprem opens up a broad field of inquiry that connects the histories of science, religion, philosophy, and Western esotericism. Parapsychology, occultism, and the modern natural sciences are usually viewed as distinct cultural phenomena with highly variable intellectual credentials. In spite of this view, Asprem demonstrates that all three have met with similar intellectual problems related to the intelligibility of nature, the relation of facts to values, and the dynamic of immanence and transcendence, and solved them in comparable terms.
650 0 _aReligion.
650 0 _aScience.
650 0 _aOccultism.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tThe Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse 1900 - 1939
_dLeiden, Boston : BRILL, 2014,
_z9789004251922
830 0 _aNumen Book Series
_v147.
830 0 _aNumen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004254947
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