Disenchantment
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In
Enlightenment ambivalence
Weber's ambivalent appraisal of the process of disenchantment as both positive and negative
Jürgen Habermas has subsequently striven to find a positive foundation for modernity in the face of disenchantment, even while appreciating Weber's recognition of how far secular society was created from, and is still "haunted by the ghosts of dead religious beliefs."[5]
Wang Huning has written that disenchantment constitutes a dialectical tension in the West which drives forward social and material progress at the expense of "authority, moderation, self-sufficiency, and self-confidence."[6]
Some have seen the disenchantment of the world as a call for
Sacralization and desacralization
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Disenchantment is related to the notion of
The process of sacralization endows a profane offering with sacred properties –
Disenchantment operates on a macro-level, rather than the micro-level of sacralization. It also destroys part of the process whereby the chaotic social elements that require sacralization in the first place continue with mere knowledge as their antidote. Therefore, disenchantment can be related to Émile Durkheim's concept of anomie: an unmooring of the individual from the ties that bind in society.[9]
Re-enchantment
In recent years, Weber's paradigm has been challenged by thinkers who see a process of re-enchantment operating alongside that of disenchantment.[10] Thus, enchantment is used to fundamentally change how even low-paid service work is experienced.[11]
Carl Jung considered symbols to provide a means for the numinous to return from the unconscious to the desacralized world[12] – a means for the recovery of myth, and the sense of wholeness it once provided, to a disenchanted modernity.[13]
Ernest Gellner argued that, although disenchantment was the inevitable product of modernity, many people just could not stand a disenchanted world, and therefore opted for various "re-enchantment creeds", such as psychoanalysis, Marxism, Wittgensteinianism, phenomenology, and ethnomethodology.[14] A noticeable feature of these re-enchantment creeds is that they all tried to make themselves compatible with naturalism: i.e., they did not refer to supernatural forces.[14]
Criticism
The American
See also
References
Citations
- ^ Jenkins 2000.
- ^ Weber 1971, p. 270.
- ^ Cascardi 1992, p. 19.
- ^ Borradori 2003, p. 69.
- ^ Collins & Makowsky 1998, p. 274.
- ^ "Entzauberung". 29 September 2023.
- ^ Embree 1999, pp. 110–111.
- ^ Bell 2009, p. 26.
- ^ Bell 2009.
- ^ Landy & Saler 2009.
- ^ Endrissat, Islam & Noppeney 2015.
- ^ Jung 1978, pp. 83–94.
- ^ Casement 2007, p. 20.
- ^ a b Hall 2010.
- ^ Josephson-Storm 2017, ch. 1.
Works cited
- ISBN 978-0-19-973510-5.
- ISBN 978-0-226-06664-6.
- Cascardi, A. J. (1992). The Subject of Modernity.
- Casement, Ann (2007). Who Owns Jung?.
- ISBN 978-1-55130-117-4.
- Embree, Lester, ed. (1999). Schutzian Social Science.
- Endrissat, Nada; Islam, Gazi; Noppeney, Claus (2015). "Enchanting Work: New Spirits of Service Work in an Organic Supermarket". Organization Studies. 36 (11): 1555–1576. S2CID 147215132.
- Hall, John A. (2010). Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography. London: Verso.
- S2CID 54039647. Archived from the original(PDF) on 23 November 2018. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
- ISBN 978-0-226-40336-6.
- Jung, C. G. (1978). Man and His Symbols.
- Landy, Joshua; Saler, Michael, eds. (2009). The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
- Weber, Max (1971) [1920]. The Sociology of Religion.
Further reading
- ISBN 978-0-14-021180-1.
- ISBN 978-0-691-08813-6.
- ISBN 978-0-8014-9225-9.
- ISBN 978-0-385-24774-0.
- During, Simon (2002). Modern Enchantments the Cultural Power of Secular Magic. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01371-1.
- ISBN 978-1-4384-4510-6.
- Swatos, William H. Jr. (1998). "Disenchantment". In Swatos, William H. Jr. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Religion and Society. Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira Press. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-7619-8956-1. Archivedfrom the original on 13 February 2020. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
- ISBN 978-0-674-02676-6.
- ISBN 978-0-87220-665-6.