The problem of disenchantment : scientific naturalism and esoteric discourse, 1900-1939 / by Egil Asprem.

Originally published: Leiden; Boston : Brill, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Intro; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction The Limits of Reason; Outline of the Book; Part 1: From Process to Problem; Chapter 1 From Process to Problem; Weberians on Disenchantment: Rationality, Modernity, and Western Culture; The Dialectic Solution: Dis- and Re-Enchantment; Problemgeschichte: A Brief Introduction to the New Problem History; The Intellectual Sacrifice and the Three Dimensions of Disenchantment; Lighting up the Blind Spot: Disenchantment's Tertium Quid; The Problems of Disenchantment; Chapter 2 Science as Worldview; Introduction.

1 The Poverty of the Re-Enchantment Paradigm2 The Reach of Science: Naturalism and Scientific Worldviews; Victorian Scientific Naturalism: A Historical Perspective; Naturalism as a Philosophical Current; Naturalism versus Supernaturalism; Between Naturalisation and Disenchantment: Mapping the Magical Margin; 3 Disenchantment Revisited; Towards a Critical Naturalistic Constructionism; Conclusion: The Construction and Inversion of a Worldview; Part 2: New Natural Theologies; Chapter 3 Brave New World: An Introduction to Part Two; Chapter 4 Physical Science in a Modern Mode; Introduction.

1 Science and Memory: A Historiographical Preamble2 Relativities: A Straight Story; Relativities I: The Special Theory, and Some Precursors; Relativities II: The General Theory and the Birth of Modern Cosmology; 3 The Development of Quantum Physics; A Chronological Overview; 4 Radioactivity: The Newer Alchemy?; The Discovery of Radioactivity, Phase 1: Becquerel and the Curies; Radioactivity, Phase 2: Soddy, Rutherford, and the Transmutation of Elements; Modern Alchemy and the Problem of Disenchantment; 5 Physics, Worldview, and Culture: Revisiting the Forman Thesis.

Causality and the Weimar ZeitgeistForman Revised: Criticisms and Re-Evaluation; 6 Conclusion: The Forman Thesis and the Problem of Disenchantment; The Problem of Disenchantment in Physics; The Esoteric Connection (I): Creating Emic Historiographies; The Esoteric Connection (II): Conceptual Developments; Chapter 5 The Meaning of Life: Mechanism and Purpose in the Sciences of Life and Mind; Introduction; 1 The Disenchantment of Life Until 1900; 2 The Re-Enchantment of Life from 1900; The Meanings of Mechanism; The Alternatives at 1900: Mechanism-Organicism/Holism-Vitalism.

Lessons from Developmental EmbryologyConclusions; 3 The Conquest of Consciousness: Psychology and the Place of Mind in Nature; From Mind to Behaviour: John B. Watson and the Behaviourist Reform; The Battle of Behaviourism: John B. Watson vs. William McDougall; 4 Evolution Contra Darwin; Conclusion; Chapter 6 Five Schools of Natural Theology: Reconciling Science and Religion; Introduction: The Revival of Natural Theology; 1 The Institutions of Natural Theology; The Gifford Lectures; The Societies for Psychical Research; The Alchemical Society; 2 Five Schools of Natural Theology.

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