The disenchantment of the world : a political history of religion / Marcel Gauchet ; translated by O...
The disenchantment of the world : a political history of religion / Marcel Gauchet ; translated by O...
The disenchantment of the world : a political history of religion / Marcel Gauchet ; translated by Oscar Burge ; with a foreword by Charles Taylor.
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1997.
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T0376209
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English
French
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xv, 228 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Foreword / Charles Taylor -- Pt. 1. The Metamorphoses of the Divine: The Origin, Meaning, and Development of the Religious -- The Historicity of the Religious. Ch. 1. Primeval Religion or the Reign of the Absolute Past. Ch. 2. The State of Sacral Transforming Agent. Ch. 3. The Dynamics of Transcende...
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1997.
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New Jersey
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c1997.
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Marcel Gauchet has launched one of the most ambitious and controversial works of speculative history recently to appear, based on the contention that Christianity is "the religion of the end of religion." In The Disenchantment of the World, Gauchet reinterprets the development of the modern West, with all its political and psychological complexitie...
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The disenchantment of the world : a political history of religion / Marcel Gauchet ; translated by Oscar Burge ; with a foreword by Charles Taylor.
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New French thought.
Translated from the French edition of Marcel Gauchet, Le désenchantement du monde.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-223) and index.
Transferred from N200/42.
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c1997.
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T0376209
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0691029377
9780691044064 (alk. paper)
0691044066 (alk. paper)
9780691029375
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200
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991000743019702626
