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The 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. Reviews "This pioneering holistic work is still one of the best discussions of the spiritual havoc wrought by the 'disgodding' of nature and the split in the Western mind between facts and values."- Chip Brown , The List "Morris Berman's book addresses what I consider to be the most important

Who reads The Reenchantment of the World?

Author

Morris Berman

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

1981

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801492259

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Fiction, Physics, Science

Rating

4.13 / 5 (153 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14