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IASC: The Hedgehog Review - Volume 17, No. 3 (Fall 2015) - We Have Never Been Disenchanted -

IASC: The Hedgehog Review - Volume 17, No. 3 (Fall 2015) - We Have Never Been Disenchanted -: The Hedgehog Review: Vol. 17 No. 3 (Fall 2015)
We Have Never Been Disenchanted
Eugene McCarraher
The Hedgehog Review
The Hedgehog Review: Fall 2015

(Volume 17 | Issue 3)

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“Beautiful demon of Money, what an enchanter thou art!”
—Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age

One of the stories modernity tells about itself is titled “The Disenchantment of the World.” Friedrich Schiller coined the phrase while lamenting the demise of the gods of Greek antiquity, but it was Max Weber who turned it into melancholy shorthand for the modern condition of secularity.1

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