Night Side of Nature
Environmental Meanings of the Modern Paranormal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12901194 |
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| Authors | Timothy Grieve-Carlson (0009-0009-2109-2008, Rice University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 229-254 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-06 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-4907 • E-ISSN: 1749-4915 |
| Publisher | Equinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/jsrnc.41113 |
| OpenAlex | W3192479252 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
The rise of the category of the paranormal in scholarship during the last decade calls for a historical genealogy of the term, if scholars are to continue to use it as both an analytic frame and an object of study. Such a genealogy shows that the paranormal derives from early modern and Renaissance environmental and cosmotheist beliefs and philosophies. Modern discourses of the paranormal are deeply coded forms of Renaissance cosmotheism and organicism, a coding accomplished through major intellectual stances on the category of ‘nature’ by lgures like Franz Mesmer, Friedrich W.J. Schelling, and Frederic W.H. Myers. The modern paranormal is an organic and ecological intellectual category of uncanny interrelation between subject and environment, and tracing its historical development demonstrates how organic environmental philosophies were shaped during and after the Enlightenment
Aesthetics · Art history · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Motif (music · Object (grammar · Paranormal · Scholarship · Sociology · Subject (documents · The Renaissance · Uncanny · History · History of Science and Natural History · Law · Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
Being Ecological
The Place of Enchantment
Making Magic
Ecology without Nature
Feeling of absolute dependence or absolute feeling of dependence? (What Schleiermacher really said and why it matters)
“Our Secret in Plain Sight”
The Myth of Disenchantment
The Problem of Disenchantment
Finding Data
Pantheologies
The Re-Enchantment of the West
The Romantic Conception of Life
| Highly cited | No |
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