Magic and Modernity: Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment Paperback - 2003 - 1st Edition
by Birgit Meyer (Editor); Peter Pels (Editor)
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Magic and Modernity is the first book to explore comparatively how magic--usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern--is also something that is at home in modernity. "Magic" and "modernity" are rarely regarded as belonging together. Evolutionism regarded magic as quintessentially "unmodern." Although psychologists and romantic artists have sometimes declared magic to be a human universal, few modern scholars in the humanities and social sciences have studied how modern culture and institutions incorporated and even produced magic.
This book is the first to adopt a comparative approach to the study of magic as something that has a place in modernity, and that helped to constitute modern society at local and global levels. The essays in this collection contribute to recent discussions in anthropology, cultural studies, comparative literature, history, and sociology that increasingly question the extent to which modern self-conceptions are accurate reflections of a state of affairs in the world rather than cultural interventions.
From the jacket flap
Magic and Modernity is the first book to explore comparatively how magic--usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern--is also something that is at home in modernity. "Magic" and "modernity" are rarely regarded as belonging together. Evolutionism regarded magic as quintessentially "unmodern." Although psychologists and romantic artists have sometimes declared magic to be a human universal, few modern scholars in the humanities and social sciences have studied how modern culture and institutions incorporated and even produced magic.
This book is the first to adopt a comparative approach to the study of magic as something that has a place in modernity, and that helped to constitute modern society at local and global levels. The essays in this collection contribute to recent discussions in anthropology, cultural studies, comparative literature, history, and sociology that increasingly question the extent to which modern self-conceptions are accurate reflections of a state of affairs in the world rather than cultural interventions.
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- Title Magic and Modernity: Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment
- Author Birgit Meyer (Editor); Peter Pels (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford
- Date 2003-06-19
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780804744645 / 0804744645
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.02 x 6 x 0.98 in (22.91 x 15.24 x 2.49 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: New Age
- Library of Congress subjects Magic, Witchcraft
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002014751
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.4
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