The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism & the Culture of the Modern by Alex Owen
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Overview: By the end of the 19th century, Victorians were seeking rational explanations for the world in which they lived. The radical ideas of Charles Darwin had shaken traditional religious beliefs. Sigmund Freud was developing his innovative models of the conscious & unconscious mind. & anthropologist James George Frazer was subjecting magic, myth, & ritual to systematic inquiry. Why, then, in this quintessentially modern moment, did late-Victorian & Edwardian men & women become absorbed by metaphysical quests, heterodox spiritual encounters, & occult experimentation? In answering this question for the 1st time, The Place of Enchantment breaks new ground in its consideration of the role of occultism in British culture prior to World War I. Rescuing occultism from its status as an “irrational indulgence” & situating it at the center of British intellectual life, Owen argues that an involvement with the occult was a leitmotif of the intellectual avant-garde.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy > Occult
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