Intellectual History

Intellectual History

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How did a magical, spiritualist, mesmerized Europe ever convince itself that it was disenchanted? Josephson-Storm traces the history of the myth of disenchantment in the births of philosophy, anthropology, sociology, folklore, psychoanalysis, and religious studies. Ironically, the myth of mythless modernity formed at the very time that Britain,... See more

The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences (University of Chicago Press, 2017)

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Intellectual Legitimacy | Samo Burja

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First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us

Henrik Karlsson escapingflatland.substack.com

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"A Journey on the Information Highway"

Evan Williams jamesclear.com

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Prashanth Narayan

Higher than the Shoulders of Giants; Or, a Scientist’s History of Drugs

Slime Mold Time Mold slimemoldtimemold.com

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Figuring

Maria Popova themarginalian.org

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