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Josephson-Storm asks the key question: How did this factual myth become one of the myths that defines the modern age. . . . In Josephson-Storm’s telling, the cultural trajectory of the past two centuries has not been 'disenchantment' so much as 'de-Christianization.' . . .
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May 4, 2018 · By “myth,” Josephson-Storm means something that is both “factually false” and a “master cultural narrative.” As a factual matter, “magic never truly vanished.” We’re told that the Reformation disenchanted Western Europe, but Luther threw his inkpot at the devil and Puritans put witches on trial.
Mar 15, 2023 · All three portrayed the transformations of human consciousness over time as a one-way trip in which enchantment belonged permanently to the past. All three of them went on to argue that our current state of disenchanted consciousness will be replaced sooner or later by some new and improved post-disenchanted state.
In addition to exposing disenchantment as a "myth" in the sense of a false narrative, The Myth of Disenchantment argues that disenchantment has come to function as a "regulative ideal," which leads people to disavow belief in magic and act as though Western society is disenchanted even though disenchantment has not come to pass.
- Jason A. Josephson-Storm
- 2017
Historians of European magic and witchcraft have also engaged, sometimes overtly but often tacitly, with the themes Weber identified and encapsulated as “dis-enchantment.” Keith Thomas in particular, in his groundbreaking Religion and the Decline of Magic, made only passing reference to Weber directly but took up the
In articulating this genealogy, Josephson-Storm invokes the bimodal nature of attempted disenchantments and disenchantment narratives, as they ultimately slip into that which they either oppose or argue is in decline: the world of enchantment and myth.
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Was there actually a historical rupture between the epoch of magic and the critique of disenchantment? Does modernity really define a singular breach, or is it a mythic epoch? Call this the historical doubt.
