TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gauchet,Marcel
AU  - Burge,Oscar
AU  - Taylor,Charles
TI  - The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religion 
T2  - New French Thought Series
SN  - 9780691238364
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Religious
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Absurdity
KW  - Agnosticism
KW  - Ambiguity (law)
KW  - Ambiguity
KW  - Anguish
KW  - Asceticism
KW  - Atheism
KW  - Barbarian
KW  - Caesaropapism
KW  - Censure
KW  - Christ
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Circular reasoning
KW  - Civil society
KW  - Coincidence
KW  - Collective identity
KW  - Conscience
KW  - Consubstantiality
KW  - Contradiction
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Critique of ideology
KW  - Critique
KW  - De facto
KW  - De jure
KW  - Deity
KW  - Demagogue
KW  - Determination
KW  - Dictatorship
KW  - Disenchantment
KW  - Dissident
KW  - Doctrine
KW  - Ethnocentrism
KW  - Europe
KW  - Exegesis
KW  - Expense
KW  - Expropriation
KW  - Fading
KW  - Gnosticism
KW  - God Alone
KW  - God is dead
KW  - God
KW  - Governance
KW  - Hatred
KW  - Heresy
KW  - Heterodoxy
KW  - Ideology
KW  - Idolatry
KW  - Impermanence
KW  - Implementation
KW  - Impossibility
KW  - In This World
KW  - Individualism
KW  - Individuation
KW  - Infidel
KW  - Injunction
KW  - Internalization
KW  - Invisible hand
KW  - Irreligion
KW  - Isolationism
KW  - Lethargy
KW  - Major trauma
KW  - Monism
KW  - Monotheism
KW  - Morality
KW  - Mutual exclusion
KW  - Nonbeliever
KW  - Obligation
KW  - Obscurantism
KW  - Obstacle
KW  - Occult
KW  - Oppression
KW  - Orthodoxy
KW  - Otherworld
KW  - Paul Hindemith
KW  - Persecution
KW  - Political division
KW  - Radicalization
KW  - Reductionism
KW  - Religion
KW  - Religious war
KW  - Renunciation
KW  - Secularization
KW  - Self-concept
KW  - Self-ownership
KW  - Separate spheres
KW  - Social rejection
KW  - Soteriology
KW  - Subjectivity
KW  - Superstition
KW  - Superstructure
KW  - Tardiness (scheduling)
KW  - Tardiness
KW  - Tearing
KW  - The Exodus
KW  - Theism
KW  - Thought
KW  - Trance
KW  - Unanimity
KW  - Uncertainty
KW  - Yahweh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Introduction --; Part One: THE METAMORPHOSES OF THE DIVINE THE ORIGIN, MEANING, AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE RELIGIOUS --; Part Two: THE APOGEE AND DEATH OF GOD CHRISTIANITY AND WESTERN DEVELOPMENT --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Marcel Gauchet has launched one of the most ambitious and controversial works of speculative history recently to appear, based on the contention that Christianity is "the religion of the end of religion." In The Disenchantment of the World, Gauchet reinterprets the development of the modern west, with all its political and psychological complexities, in terms of mankind's changing relation to religion. He views Western history as a movement away from religious society, beginning with prophetic Judaism, gaining tremendous momentum in Christianity, and eventually leading to the rise of the political state. Gauchet's view that monotheistic religion itself was a form of social revolution is rich with implications for readers in fields across the humanities and social sciences.Life in religious society, Gauchet reminds us, involves a very different way of being than we know in our secular age: we must imagine prehistoric times where ever-present gods controlled every aspect of daily reality, and where ancestor worship grounded life's meaning in a far-off past. As prophecy-oriented religions shaped the concept of a single omnipotent God, one removed from the world and yet potentially knowable through prayer and reflection, human beings became increasingly free. Gauchet's paradoxical argument is that the development of human political and psychological autonomy must be understood against the backdrop of this double movement in religious consciousness--the growth of divine power and its increasing distance from human activity.In a fitting tribute to this passionate and brilliantly argued book, Charles Taylor offers an equally provocative foreword. Offering interpretations of key concepts proposed by Gauchet, Taylor also explores an important question: Does religion have a place in the future of Western society? The book does not close the door on religion but rather invites us to explore its socially constructive powers, which continue to shape Western politics and conceptions of the state
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