Craft, magic and the re-enchantment of the world

Suddaby, R; Ganzin, M; Minkus, A

doi:10.4324/9781315194394

Craft, magic and the re-enchantment of the world

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Abstract

© 2018 Taylor & Francis. Nearly one hundred years ago, Max Weber identified an emerging ‘disenchantment’ with the world. He used the term ‘disenchantment’ to capture a sense of weary nostalgia for what humanity must give up in order to progress. Disenchantment, he argued, was the inevitable outcome of the ongoing expansion of rationality in modernity. Weber saw disenchantment as a natural result of the displacement of tradition, myth and superstition by reason-a displacement that he felt defined the transition to modernity.