The re-enchantment of the world : secular magic in a rational age /

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : the varieties of modern enchantment / Joshua Landy and Michael Saler -- "Broken knowledge" / Andrea Nightingale -- Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered : William James's feeling of 'if' / Linda Simon -- Waste lands and silly valleys : Wittgenstein, mass culture, and re-enchantment / Michael Saler -- Homeless gardens / Robert Harrison -- The modernist imagination of place and the politics of regionalism : Puig i Cadafalch and early 20th-century Barcelona / Maiken Umbach -- Modern magic : Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin and Stéphane Mallarmé / Joshua Landy -- The rocambolesque and the modern enchantment of popular fiction / Robin Walz -- "Lost in focused intensity" : spectator sports and strategies of re-enchantment / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht -- Permanent re-enchantments : on some literary uses of the supernatural from early empiricism to modern aesthetics / Nicholas Paige -- Gnosophilia : Bloch, Benjamin, and the authority of counter-tradition / Daniel Jiro Tanaka -- The birth of ideology from the spirit of myth : Georges Sorel among the idéologues / Dan Edelstein -- Nietzsche on redemption and transfiguration / R. Lanier Anderson -- Epilogue : what hearing knows / Michel Serres