University of Chicago Press, Date: 2004-04-14. hardcover. Acceptable. Good text with a few underlines and margin marks, light coffee stain to edge. Dust jacket has some shelf wear and rubbing 2004. University of Chicago Press ISBN 0226642011 9780226642017 [US]

University of Chicago Press, Date: 2004-04-14. Hardcover. Like New. 9x6x1. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xiv, 355 p. : ill. 2004. University of Chicago Press ISBN 0226642011 9780226642017 [US]

New. Exploratory sex magic. Experimentation with mind-altering drugs. Astral travel. Alchemy. Alex Owen's new book, The Place of Enchantment, situates these seemingly anachronistic practices squarely alongside revolutionary understandings of rationality in a compelling demonstration of how a newly psychologized magic operated in conjunction with the developing patterns of modern life. By the end of the nineteenth century, Victorians sought rational explanations for the world in which they lived. The radical ideas of Charles Darwin had shaken traditional religious beliefs. Sigmund Freud was developing his innovative models of the conscious and unconscious mind. And anthropologist James George Frazer was subjecting magic, myth, and ritual to systematic inquiry. Why, then, in this quintessentially modern moment, did late-Victorian and Edwardian men and women become absorbed by metaphysical quests, heterodox spiritual encounters, and occult experimentation? In answering this question for the first time, The Place of Enchantment breaks new ground in its consideration of occultism in British culture prior to World War I. Rescuing occultism from its status as an "irrational indulgence" and placing it at the center of British intellectual life, Owen argues that an involvement with the occult was a leitmotif of an intellectual avant-garde. She details such fascinating examples of occult practice as the sex magic of Aleister Crowley, the pharmacological ...

University of Chicago Press 2004 2nd ed. Hard cover New Alec Owen situates seemingly anachronistic practices such as exploratory sex magic, alchemy and astral travel, alongside revolutionary understandings of rationality in a demonstration of how a newly psychologized magic operated in conjunction with the developing patterns of modern life. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; HRQX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 166 x 38. Weight in Grams: 674. 2004. 2nd ed. Hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.

University of Chicago Press, Date: 2004-04-14. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2004. University of Chicago Press ISBN 0226642011 9780226642017 [US]