Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse, 1900-1939
E-Book, Englisch, 646 Seiten
Reihe: SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6994-2
Verlag: State University of New York Press
Format: EPUB
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problem for those few who were socialized to believe that nature should contain no such incalculable mysteries. Drawing on a wide range of early twentieth-century primary sources from theoretical physics, occultism, embryology, radioactivity, psychical research, and other fields, Asprem casts the intellectual life of high modernity as a synchronic struggle across conspicuously different fields that shared surprisingly similar intellectual problems about value, meaning, and the limits of knowledge.
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Weitere Infos & Material
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction the Limits of Reason
Part 1.
From Process to Problem
1. From Process to Problem
2. Science as Worldview
Part 2.
New Natural Theologies
3. Brave New World: An Introduction to Part Two
4. Physical Science in a Modern Mode
5. The Meaning of Life: Mechanism and Purpose in the Sciences of Life and Mind
6. Five Schools of Natural Theology: Reconciling Science and Religion
Part 3.
Laboratories of Enchantment
7. Against Agnosticism: Psychical Research and the Naturalisation of the Supernatural
8. Laboratories of Enchantment: Parapsychology in Search of a Paradigm
9. Professionals Out of the Ordinary: How Parapsychology Became a University Discipline
Part 4.
Esoteric Epistemologies
10. Esoteric Epistemologies
11. The Problems of a Gnostic Science: The Case of Theosophy's Occult Chemistry
12. Perceiving Higher Worlds: Two Perspectives
Conclusion Implications for the Study of Science, Religion, and Esotericism
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects