The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religion

by Marcel Gauchet

Book Overview

Marcel Gauchet has launched one of the most ambitious and controversial works of speculative history recently to appear, based on the contention that Christianity is "the religion of the end of religion." In The Disenchantment of the World, Gauchet reinterprets the development of the modern west, with all its political and psychological complexities, in terms of mankind's changing relation to religion. He views Western history as a movement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691029377
• ISBN13: 9780691029375
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"