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Author |
: Pierre Schlag |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 1998-07-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822322145 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822322146 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Enchantment Of Reason by : Pierre Schlag
DIVA critique of legal scholarship and the way reason is used and deified in law, by one of the most controversial legal scholars now writing./div
Author |
: Pierre Schlag |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 174 |
Release |
: 1998-07-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822382775 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822382776 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Enchantment Of Reason by : Pierre Schlag
The Enchantment of Reason is a lively critique of American legal thought and the American legal system’s deification of reason. In an attempt to understand the current malaise of American law and the depressed condition of American intellectual life in general, Pierre Schlag diagnoses what he believes is an epidemic of pathological reliance on the principle of reason. Contending that legal thinkers continually fail to recognize the aesthetic and ethical prejudices of rationalism, Schlag creates a genealogy that shows how the call to reason has become a manipulative vehicle of power, faith, and prejudice. In examining the fierce resistance to questioning reason’s primacy, this renowned critic and professor of American law demonstrates how those who use and study the law perpetuate their own methodological blind spots. Claiming that reason has been endowed with a virtually mystical power to organize social life, Schlag unravels the seemingly rational world of judicial opinions, statutes, doctrines, and legal principles. In the process, he paints a shocking—and sure to be controversial—picture of the chaos and, indeed, violence of the American legal tradition. This bold commentary on the irrationality of reason in American law and legal studies will interest not only legal scholars and philosophers but also serious thinkers across a broad disciplinary spectrum.
Author |
: Jane Bennett |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 223 |
Release |
: 2016-11-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400884537 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400884535 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Enchantment of Modern Life by : Jane Bennett
It is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted--that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages of superstition. Jane Bennett challenges that view. She seeks to rehabilitate enchantment, showing not only how it is still possible to experience genuine wonder, but how such experience is crucial to motivating ethical behavior. A creative blend of political theory, philosophy, and literary studies, this book is a powerful and innovative contribution to an emerging interdisciplinary conversation about the deep connections between ethics, aesthetics, and politics. As Bennett describes it, enchantment is a sense of openness to the unusual, the captivating, and the disturbing in everyday life. She guides us through a wide and often surprising range of sources of enchantment, showing that we can still find enchantment in nature, for example, but also in such unexpected places as modern technology, advertising, and even bureaucracy. She then explains how everyday moments of enchantment can be cultivated to build an ethics of generosity, stimulating the emotional energy and honing the perceptual refinement necessary to follow moral codes. Throughout, Bennett draws on thinkers and writers as diverse as Kant, Schiller, Thoreau, Kafka, Marx, Weber, Adorno, and Deleuze. With its range and daring, The Enchantment of Modern Life is a provocative challenge to the centuries-old ''narrative of disenchantment,'' one that presents a new ''alter-tale'' that discloses our profound attachment to the human and nonhuman world.
Author |
: Eugene Halton |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226314626 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226314624 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bereft of Reason by : Eugene Halton
We must, he argues, frame our questions in a way which encompasses both enchantment and critical reason, and he offers an outline here for doing so. A passionate plea for a fundamental reexamination of the entrenched assumptions of the modern era, this book deals with issues of vital concern to modern societies and should be read by scholars across disciplines.
Author |
: Margaret Rogerson |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2017-09-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781481497589 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1481497588 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Enchantment of Ravens by : Margaret Rogerson
A skilled painter must stand up to the ancient power of the faerie courts--even as she falls in love with a faerie prince--in this gorgeous debut novel. 6 x 9.
Author |
: Eugene McCarraher |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 817 |
Release |
: 2019-11-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674242777 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674242777 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Enchantments of Mammon by : Eugene McCarraher
“An extraordinary work of intellectual history as well as a scholarly tour de force, a bracing polemic, and a work of Christian prophecy...McCarraher challenges more than 200 years of post-Enlightenment assumptions about the way we live and work.” —The Observer At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been understood as part of the “disenchantment” of the world, stripping material objects and social relations of their mystery and magic. In this magisterial work, Eugene McCarraher challenges this conventional view. Capitalism, he argues, is full of sacrament, whether one is prepared to acknowledge it or not. First flowering in the fields and factories of England and brought to America by Puritans and evangelicals, whose doctrine made ample room for industry and profit, capitalism has become so thoroughly enmeshed in the fabric of our society that our faith in “the market” has become sacrosanct. Informed by cultural history and theology as well as management theory, The Enchantments of Mammon looks to nineteenth-century Romantics, whose vision of labor combined reason, creativity, and mutual aid, for salvation. In this impassioned challenge to some of our most firmly held assumptions, McCarraher argues that capitalism has hijacked our intrinsic longing for divinity—and urges us to break its hold on our souls. “A majestic achievement...It is a work of great moral and spiritual intelligence, and one that invites contemplation about things we can’t afford not to care about deeply.” —Commonweal “More brilliant, more capacious, and more entertaining, page by page, than his most ardent fans dared hope. The magnitude of his accomplishment—an account of American capitalism as a religion...will stun even skeptical readers.” —Christian Century
Author |
: J. Eric Oliver |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 279 |
Release |
: 2018-09-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226578644 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022657864X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Enchanted America by : J. Eric Oliver
America is in civic chaos, its politics rife with conspiracy theories and false information. Nationalism and authoritarianism are on the rise, while scientists, universities, and news organizations are viewed with increasing mistrust. Its citizens reject scientific evidence on climate change and vaccinations while embracing myths of impending apocalypse. And then there is Donald Trump, a presidential candidate who won the support of millions of conservative Christians despite having no moral or political convictions. What is going on? The answer, according to J. Eric Oliver and Thomas J. Wood, can be found in the most important force shaping American politics today: human intuition. Much of what seems to be irrational in American politics arises from the growing divide in how its citizens make sense of the world. On one side are rationalists. They use science and reason to understand reality. On the other side are intuitionists. They rely on gut feelings and instincts as their guide to the world. Intuitionists believe in ghosts and End Times prophecies. They embrace conspiracy theories, disbelieve experts, and distrust the media. They are stridently nationalistic and deeply authoritarian in their outlook. And they are the most enthusiastic supporters of Donald Trump. The primary reason why Trump captured the presidency was that he spoke about politics in a way that resonated with how Intuitionists perceive the world. The Intuitionist divide has also become a threat to the American way of life. A generation ago, intuitionists were dispersed across the political spectrum, when most Americans believed in both God and science. Today, intuitionism is ideologically tilted toward the political right. Modern conservatism has become an Intuitionist movement, defined by conspiracy theories, strident nationalism, and hostility to basic civic norms. Enchanted America is a clarion call to rationalists of all political persuasions to reach beyond the minority and speak to intuitionists in a way they understand. The values and principles that define American democracy are at stake.
Author |
: Orson Scott Card |
Publisher |
: Del Rey |
Total Pages |
: 434 |
Release |
: 2005-05-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780345484505 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0345484509 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Enchantment by : Orson Scott Card
In Enchantment, Orson Scott Card works his magic as never before, transforming the timeless story of Sleeping Beauty into an original fantasy brimming with romance and adventure. The moment Ivan stumbled upon a clearing in the dense Carpathian forest, his life was forever changed. Atop a pedestal encircled by fallen leaves, the beautiful princess Katerina lay still as death. But beneath the foliage a malevolent presence stirred and sent the ten-year-old Ivan scrambling for the safety of Cousin Marek's farm. Now, years later, Ivan is an American graduate student, engaged to be married. Yet he cannot forget that long-ago day in the forest—or convince himself it was merely a frightened boy’s fantasy. Compelled to return to his native land, Ivan finds the clearing just as he left it. This time he does not run. This time he awakens the beauty with a kiss . . . and steps into a world that vanished a thousand years ago. A rich tapestry of clashing worlds and cultures, Enchantment is a powerfully original novel of a love and destiny that transcend centuries . . . and the dark force that stalks them across the ages.
Author |
: Joshua Landy |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000124484498 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Re-enchantment of the World by : Joshua Landy
The Re-Enchantment of the World 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 array 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.
Author |
: Paul Egan Nahme |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 342 |
Release |
: 2019-03-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253039767 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253039762 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hermann Cohen and the Crisis of Liberalism by : Paul Egan Nahme
Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) is often held to be one of the most important Jewish philosophers of the nineteenth century. Paul E. Nahme, in this new consideration of Cohen, liberalism, and religion, emphasizes the idea of enchantment, or the faith in and commitment to ideas, reason, and critique—the animating spirits that move society forward. Nahme views Cohen through the lenses of the crises of Imperial Germany—the rise of antisemitism, nationalism, and secularization—to come to a greater understanding of liberalism, its Protestant and Jewish roots, and the spirits of modernity and tradition that form its foundation. Nahme's philosophical and historical retelling of the story of Cohen and his spiritual investment in liberal theology present a strong argument for religious pluralism and public reason in a world rife with populism, identity politics, and conspiracy theories.