Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences

Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences

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Myths and magic
Nov 1, 2025

Josephson-Storm argues, these disciplines' founding figures were not only aware of, but profoundly enmeshed in, the occult milieu; and it was specifically in response to this burgeoning culture of spirits and magic that they produced notions of a disenchanted world.