The Reenchantment of the World

Author: Morris Berman

Number Of Pages: 368

Publisher: Cornell University Press

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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.

EAN: 9780801492259

Release Date: 30-11-1981

Package Dimensions: 9.0 x 6.0 x 0.9 inches

Languages: English