Concept
Disenchantment
Overview
In social science, disenchantment (German: Entzauberung) is the cultural rationalization and devaluation of religion apparent in modern society. The term was borrowed from Friedrich Schiller by Max Weber to describe the character of a modernized, bureaucratic, secularized Western society. In Western society, according to Weber, scientific understanding is more highly valued than belief, and processes are oriented toward rational goals, as opposed to traditional society, in which "the world remains a great enchanted garden".
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Philosophers who discussed Disenchantment
Related ideas
- Jürgen Habermas
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Modernity
- Marxism
- Max Weber
- Western world
- Ernest Gellner
- Frankfurt School
- Psychoanalysis
- Myth
- Romanticism
- Secularism
- Mysticism
- Charles Taylor (philosopher)
- Age of Enlightenment
- Western Europe
- United States
- Normativity
- Émile Durkheim
- Carl Jung
- Anomie
- Friedrich Schiller
- Rationalism
- Phenomenology (philosophy)
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of New Age.