Magic and Modernity: Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment

by Peter Pels and Birgit Meyer

Book Overview

Magic and Modernity is the first book to explore comparatively how magic-usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern-is also something that is at home in modernity. "Magic" and "modernity" are rarely regarded as belonging together. Evolutionism regarded magic as quintessentially "unmodern." Although psychologists and romantic artists have sometimes declared magic to be a human universal, few modern scholars in the humanities and social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804744645
• ISBN13: 9780804744645
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"