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The Reenchantment of the World

The Reenchantment of the World Paperback - 1982

by Morris Berman

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Cornell Univ Pr, 1982. Paperback. New. later printing edition. 357 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches.
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  • Title The Reenchantment of the World
  • Author Morris Berman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell Univ Pr, Ithaca, NY
  • Date 1982
  • Bookseller's Inventory # x-0801492254
  • ISBN 9780801492259 / 0801492254
  • Weight 1.09 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 6.09 x 0.84 in (22.81 x 15.47 x 2.13 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Modern
  • Library of Congress subjects Technology and civilization, Metaphysics
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 81067178
  • Dewey Decimal Code 110

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From the publisher

The Reenchantment of the World is a perceptive study of our scientific consciousness and a cogent and forceful challenge to its supremacy. Focusing on the rise of the mechanistic idea that we can know the natural world only by distancing ourselves from it, Berman shows how science acquired its controlling position in the consciousness of the West. He analyzes the holistic, animistic tradition--destroyed in the wake of Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--which viewed man as a participant in the cosmos, not as an isolated observer. Arguing that the holistic world view must be revived in some credible form before we destroy our society and our environment, he explores the possibilities for a consciousness appropriate to the modern era. Ecological rather than animistic, this new world view would be grounded in the real and intimate connection between man and nature.

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A perspective study of our scientific consciousness and a cogent and forceful challenge to its supremacy. Focusing on the rise of the mechanistic idea that we can know the natural world only by distancing ourselves from it, Berman shows how science acquired its controlling position in the consciousness of the West.

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About the author

Morris Berman is an Independent Scholar and Visiting Professor in Sociology at the Catholic University of America. His books include Coming to Our Senses, Wandering God, The Twilight of American Culture, and Dark Ages America.