Patrick Curry

Enchantment (eBook, ePUB)

Wonder in Modern Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Enchantment is a profound human experience. When we encounter wonder, awe or amazement, that is enchantment. Enchantment can reveal profound truths, lead to deep values and become central to a life well-lived.

This unique book explores how enchantment plays out in a wide range of contexts -- in love, art, religion and learning, in food and drink, and perhaps most significantly in our relationship with the natural world.

Patrick Curry argues that modernist attempts to undermine or dismiss enchantment as a delusion are not only misguided but dangerous, potentially leading to a disengagement with our world that could have disastrous consequences for our future on this planet.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Floris Books
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782506232
• Artikelnr.: 57810732

Autorenporträt

Dr Patrick Curry was born in Canada and has lived in London for over forty years. He has lectured widely on religious studies, cosmology and astronomy at the Universities of Kent and Bath Spa. He is the author of several books, including Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien, Myth and Modernity and Ecological Ethics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The Dynamics of Enchantment 3. Love 4. Art 5. Religion
6. Food and Drink 7. Learning 8. Nature 9. Disenchantment 10. Technoscience
11. Enchantment as a Way of Life Endnotes A Bibliographical Note
Acknowledgements Index