Michael Saler
Biographic Data
| ID | 354401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Saler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Saler |
| SIGNATURE | SALER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Disenchanted Enchantments of the Modern Imagination and “Fictionalism”
Enchantment
In the early 20th century, the German sociologist Max Weber famously argued that Western modernity was “disenchanted.” He meant that modernity was defined by the growth of rationalization, which evacuated the shared spiritual meanings and purposes that had characterized premodern societies oriented toward supernatural worldviews. Rather than relying on “mysterious, incalculable forces,” Weber maintained that modernity relied on reason, science, a…
Science, the Paranormal, and Science Fiction
Public Relations and the Making of Modern Britain
The re-enchantment of the world
"The Re-Enchantment of the World is an interdisciplinary volume that challenges the long-prevailing view of modernity as "disenchanted." There is of course something to the widespread idea, so memorably put into words by Max Weber, that modernity is characterized by the "progressive disenchantment of the world." Yet what is less often recognized is the fact that a powerful counter-tendency runs alongside this one, an overwhelming urge to fill the…
Imagined Communities, Holistic Histories, and Secular Faith
Research Article| July 01 2009 IMAGINED COMMUNITIES, HOLISTIC HISTORIES, AND SECULAR FAITH Michael Saler Michael Saler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2009) 92 (1-2): 129–157. https://doi.org/10.2307/41179241 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Saler; IMAGINED COMMUNITIES, HOLISTIC HISTORIES, AND SECULAR FAITH. Soundings: An Interdisci…
Profane Illuminations, Delicate and Mysterious Flames
Those early twentieth-century thinkers who believed that modernity was ‘disenchanted’ were unlikely to perceive the uncanny as a source of genuine knowledge, but rather as an immature affect that needed to be explained away. It is possible to discern this sentiment in Max Weber, for example. Weber did not discuss the uncanny specifically, but he alluded to something comparable in a revealing aside in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capital…
Modernity and Enchantment
SPECTERS ARE ONCE AGAIN HAUNTING EUROPE AND AMERICA—as are magicians, mermaids, mesmerists, and a melange of marvels once thought to have been exorcised by the rational and secular processes of modernity. In recent years, historians from disparate fields have independently challenged the long-standing sociological view that modernity is characterized by “disenchantment.” This view, in its broadest terms, maintains that wonders and marvels have be…
At Home in the Ironic Imagination
Clap if You Believe in Sherlock Holmes’
Since the late nineteenth century, Western intellectuals have tended to depict ‘modernity’ as being incompatible with ‘enchantment’. Thus Max Weber argued that two aspects intrinsic to modernity, rationalization and bureaucratization, were inimical to the magical attitudes toward human existence that characterized medieval and early modern thought. His gloomy image of the ‘iron cage’ of reason echoed the fears of earlier romantics and was to be r…
Hearing voices of the past
Making It New
We often associate visual modernism with cosmopolitan cities on the Continent, with pride of place going to Paris, Vienna, Prague, Berlin, and Munich. English visual modernism has been studied less frequently—the very phrase “English modernism” sounds like a contradiction in terms—but it too is usually linked to the cosmopolitan center of London, as well as to the notorious postimpressionist exhibitions staged there by Roger Fry in 1910 and 1912.…
Clap if You Believe in Sherlock Holmes’
Since the late nineteenth century, Western intellectuals have tended to depict ‘modernity’ as being incompatible with ‘enchantment’. Thus Max Weber argued that two aspects intrinsic to modernity, rationalization and bureaucratization, were inimical to the magical attitudes toward human existence that characterized medieval and early modern thought. His gloomy image of the ‘iron cage’ of reason echoed the fears of earlier romantics and was to be r…
Making It New
We often associate visual modernism with cosmopolitan cities on the Continent, with pride of place going to Paris, Vienna, Prague, Berlin, and Munich. English visual modernism has been studied less frequently—the very phrase “English modernism” sounds like a contradiction in terms—but it too is usually linked to the cosmopolitan center of London, as well as to the notorious postimpressionist exhibitions staged there by Roger Fry in 1910 and 1912.…
Hearing voices of the past
Making It New
We often associate visual modernism with cosmopolitan cities on the Continent, with pride of place going to Paris, Vienna, Prague, Berlin, and Munich. English visual modernism has been studied less frequently—the very phrase “English modernism” sounds like a contradiction in terms—but it too is usually linked to the cosmopolitan center of London, as well as to the notorious postimpressionist exhibitions staged there by Roger Fry in 1910 and 1912.…
Clap if You Believe in Sherlock Holmes’
Since the late nineteenth century, Western intellectuals have tended to depict ‘modernity’ as being incompatible with ‘enchantment’. Thus Max Weber argued that two aspects intrinsic to modernity, rationalization and bureaucratization, were inimical to the magical attitudes toward human existence that characterized medieval and early modern thought. His gloomy image of the ‘iron cage’ of reason echoed the fears of earlier romantics and was to be r…
At Home in the Ironic Imagination
Modernity and Enchantment
SPECTERS ARE ONCE AGAIN HAUNTING EUROPE AND AMERICA—as are magicians, mermaids, mesmerists, and a melange of marvels once thought to have been exorcised by the rational and secular processes of modernity. In recent years, historians from disparate fields have independently challenged the long-standing sociological view that modernity is characterized by “disenchantment.” This view, in its broadest terms, maintains that wonders and marvels have be…
Profane Illuminations, Delicate and Mysterious Flames
Those early twentieth-century thinkers who believed that modernity was ‘disenchanted’ were unlikely to perceive the uncanny as a source of genuine knowledge, but rather as an immature affect that needed to be explained away. It is possible to discern this sentiment in Max Weber, for example. Weber did not discuss the uncanny specifically, but he alluded to something comparable in a revealing aside in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capital…
The re-enchantment of the world
"The Re-Enchantment of the World is an interdisciplinary volume that challenges the long-prevailing view of modernity as "disenchanted." There is of course something to the widespread idea, so memorably put into words by Max Weber, that modernity is characterized by the "progressive disenchantment of the world." Yet what is less often recognized is the fact that a powerful counter-tendency runs alongside this one, an overwhelming urge to fill the…
Imagined Communities, Holistic Histories, and Secular Faith
Research Article| July 01 2009 IMAGINED COMMUNITIES, HOLISTIC HISTORIES, AND SECULAR FAITH Michael Saler Michael Saler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2009) 92 (1-2): 129–157. https://doi.org/10.2307/41179241 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Saler; IMAGINED COMMUNITIES, HOLISTIC HISTORIES, AND SECULAR FAITH. Soundings: An Interdisci…
Public Relations and the Making of Modern Britain
Science, the Paranormal, and Science Fiction
Enchantment
In the early 20th century, the German sociologist Max Weber famously argued that Western modernity was “disenchanted.” He meant that modernity was defined by the growth of rationalization, which evacuated the shared spiritual meanings and purposes that had characterized premodern societies oriented toward supernatural worldviews. Rather than relying on “mysterious, incalculable forces,” Weber maintained that modernity relied on reason, science, a…
The Disenchanted Enchantments of the Modern Imagination and “Fictionalism”
Philosophy (9 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Art (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Modernity (5 works) · Disenchantment (4 works) · Politics (4 works)