Vision And Disenchantment
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Vision And Disenchantment
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Author : Heather Glen
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1983-07-07
Vision And Disenchantment written by Heather Glen and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-07-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
A challenging and persuasive interpretation of poems too often seen as part of a coherent and accepted literary tradition.
Wordsworth S Counterrevolutionary Turn
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Author : John Rieder
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 1997
Wordsworth S Counterrevolutionary Turn written by John Rieder and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Literary Criticism categories.
Arguing throughout that Wordsworth's originality springs from his invention and elaboration of a peculiarly literary form of community, Rieder maintains that the didactic element in Wordsworth's concept of community was doomed to irrelevance by the course of English economic and social development. Yet, Wordsworth's writing became enormously influential, not by virtue of the agrarian community it envisioned, but rather by virtue of the literary form of community it modeled and produced in its dissemination.
Curious Visions Of Modernity
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Author : David L. Martin
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2011
Curious Visions Of Modernity written by David L. Martin and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Art categories.
Rembrandt's famous painting of an anatomy lesson, the shrunken head of an Australian indigenous leader, an aerial view of Paris from a balloon: all are windows to enchantment, curiosities that illuminate something shadowy and forgotten lurking behind the neat facade of a rational world. In Curious Visions of Modernity, David Martin unpacks a collection of artifacts from the visual and historical archives of modernity, finding in each a slippage of scientific rationality--a repressed heterogeneity within the homogenized structures of post-Enlightenment knowledge. In doing so, he exposes modernity and its visual culture as haunted by precisely those things that rationality sought to expunge from the "enlightened" world: enchantment, magic, and wonderment. Martin traces the genealogies of what he considers three of the most distinct and historically immediate fields of modern visual culture: the collection, the body, and the mapping of spaces. In a narrative resembling the many-drawered curiosity cabinets of the Renaissance rather than the locked glass cases of the modern museum, he shows us a world renewed through the act of collecting the wondrous and aberrant objects of Creation; tortured and broken flesh rising from the dissecting tables of anatomy theaters to stalk the discourses of medical knowledge; and the spilling forth of a pictorializing geometry from the gilt frames of Renaissance panel paintings to venerate a panoptic god. Accounting for the visual disenchantment of modernity, Martin offers a curious vision of its reenchantment.
Enchantment And Dis Enchantment In Shakespeare And Early Modern Drama
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Author : Nandini Das
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-08
Enchantment And Dis Enchantment In Shakespeare And Early Modern Drama written by Nandini Das and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often associated with the irresistible rise of a thinned-out secular rationalism. By starting from the literary text and looking outwards to social, cultural, and historical aspects, it comes to grips with the instabilities of ‘enchanted’ and ‘disenchanted’ practices of thinking and knowledge-making in the early modern period. If what marvelously stands apart from conceptions of the world’s ordinary functioning might be said to be ‘enchanted’, is the enchantedness weakened, empowered, or modally altered by its translation to theatre? We have a received historical narrative of disenchantment as a large-scale early modern cultural process, inexorable in character, consisting of the substitution of a rationally understood and controllable world for one containing substantial areas of mystery. Early modern cultural change, however, involves transpositions, recreations, or fresh inventions of the enchanted, and not only its replacement in diminished or denatured form. This collection is centrally concerned with what happens in theatre, as a medium which can give power to experiences of wonder as well as circumscribe and curtail them, addressing plays written for the popular stage that contribute to and reflect significant contemporary reorientations of vision, awareness, and cognitive practice. The volume uses the idea of dis-enchantment/re-enchantment as a central hub to bring multiple perspectives to bear on early modern conceptualizations and theatricalizations of wonder, the sacred, and the supernatural from different vantage points, marking a significant contribution to studies of magic, witchcraft, enchantment, and natural philosophy in Shakespeare and early modern drama.
A Discourse On Disenchantment
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Author : Gilbert G. Germain
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1993-02-02
A Discourse On Disenchantment written by Gilbert G. Germain and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-02-02 with Political Science categories.
This book is the first full-length study of the ongoing debate over the status of our "disenchanted" world—a world stripped of mysterious and supernatural forces by the demythologizing power of reason and modern science. It draws together for the first time the writings of various theorists on this theme, such as Georg Lukacs, Theodor Adorno, and Jürgen Habermas, providing a coherent overview of an evolving dialogue, as well as Germain's own evaluation of the disenchantment problematic.
The Problem Of Disenchantment
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Author : Egil Asprem
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2014-07-10
The Problem Of Disenchantment written by Egil Asprem and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-10 with Religion categories.
The 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.
The Language Of Disenchantment
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Author : Robert A. Yelle
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2013
The Language Of Disenchantment written by Robert A. Yelle and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
The Language of Disenchantment explores how Protestant ideas about language inspired British colonial critiques of Hindu mythological, ritual, linguistic, and legal traditions.
Into The Region Of Awe
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Author : Jong-Tae Lee
language : en
Publisher:
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Into The Region Of Awe written by Jong-Tae Lee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
"Disenchantment" (Entzauberung), literally meaning "eliminating magic (Zabuer)," involves the spiritual crisis of modernity. To put it in a nutshell, disenchantment means that the world is no longer seen as a meaningful cosmos. Instead, moderns live in a mechanistics, meaningless universe. Disenchantment is commonly described as the eclipse of wonder in the modern world. Examining the link between thaumazein ("Platonic wonder"), contemplation (theoria), and seeing, this dissertation argues that wonder is essentially linked to the human experience of or yearning for the transcendent. I propose to understand wonder as a way of seeing, "contemplative seeing," the loss of which lies at the heart of the disenchantment of modernity. C. S. Lewis was deeply concerned with addressing and confronting challenges posed by disenchantment. Lewis strongly opposed the reductionist or subjectivist accounts of human meanings that are consequent upon disenchantment, and sought to recover the sense of the world as a locus of meaning. This dissertation demonstrates that Lewis's vision of re-enchantment is anchored in a Platonist, sacramental ontology, a metaphysics of participation, the demise of which, in modernity, is regarded by many as pivotal to the process of disenchantment. Central to Lewis's sacramental view of reality is his spirituality of wonder. I propose that his conversion can be understood as his coming to recognize the ontological significance of his experiences of wonder ("Joy")--an "original conversion," which radically transformed his approach to reality. Linking "Joy," a central motif of Lewis's life and works, to "desiderium naturale" I argue that his "argument from desire" betrays a metaphysical vision that is profoundly sacramental: the natural is innately oriented to the supernatural. This dissertation demonstrates how The Chronicles of Narnia embodies Lewis's vision of re-enchantment. Narnia, the magical world, is an imaginary "sacramental universe" in which all things are alive with transcendent meanings. I read the Narnian scenes of dancing as betraying Lewis's notion of "fullness" as a participation in an enchanted cosmos ("the great dance") and the divine life (the Trinitarian Dance), and Lucy, as a practitioner of "contemplative seeing," which Lewis believed is need for re-enchantment.
Christian Fundamentalism And The Culture Of Disenchantment
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Author : Paul Maltby
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2013-02-05
Christian Fundamentalism And The Culture Of Disenchantment written by Paul Maltby and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-05 with Religion categories.
Within the familiar clash of religious conservatism and secular liberalism Paul Maltby finds a deeper discord: an antipathy between Christian fundamentalism and the postmodern culture of disenchantment. Arguing that each camp represents the poles of America's virulent culture wars, he shows how the cultural identity, lifestyle, and political commitments of many Americans match either the fundamentalist profile of one who cleaves to metaphysical and authoritarian beliefs or the postmodern profile of one who is disposed to critical inquiry and radical-democratic values. Maltby offers a critique that operates in both directions. His use of the resources of postmodern theory to contest fundamentalism's doctrinal claims, ultra-right politics, anti-environmentalism, and conservative aesthetics informs his engagement with contemporary fundamentalist painting, spiritual warfare fiction, dominionist attitudes to nature, and a profoundly undemocratic interpretation of Christianity. At the same time, Maltby identifies some of fundamentalism’s legitimate spiritual concerns, assesses the cost of perpetual critique, and exposes the deficit of spiritual meaning that haunts the culture of disenchantment.
Disenchantment
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Author : C. E. Montague
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-09-20
Disenchantment written by C. E. Montague and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-20 with Fiction categories.
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