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.
| ISBN: | 9780801492259 |
| Publication date: | 30th November 1981 |
| Author: | Morris Berman |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 368 pages |
| Genres: |
Sociology Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge Western philosophy from c 1800 Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology Impact of science and technology on society History of science |