The Reenchantment of the WorldThe Reenchantment of the World is a perceptive study of our scientific consciousness and a cogent and forceful challenge to its supremacy. Focusing on the rise of the mechanistic idea that we can know the natural world only by distancing ourselves from it, Berman shows how science acquired its controlling position in the consciousness of the West. He analyzes the holistic, animistic tradition--destroyed in the wake of Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--which viewed man as a participant in the cosmos, not as an isolated observer. Arguing that the holistic world view must be revived in some credible form before we destroy our society and our environment, he explores the possibilities for a consciousness appropriate to the modern era. Ecological rather than animistic, this new world view would be grounded in the real and intimate connection between man and nature. |
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 11 |
The Birth of Modern Scientific Consciousness | 25 |
Consciousness and Society in Early Modern Europe | 47 |
The Disenchantment of the World 1 | 67 |
The Disenchantment of the World 2 | 115 |
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics | 133 |
Eros Regained | 153 |
Tomorrows Metaphysics 1 | 191 |
Tomorrows Metaphysics 2 | 235 |
The Politics of Consciousness | 265 |
Notes | 301 |
Glossary | 343 |