Preface and Acknowledgments A Note on Texts and Translations Introduction A Philosophical Archaeology of the Disenchantment of the World Reflexive Religious Studies: The Entangled Formation of Religion, Science, and Magic Overview of the Work: Europe Is Not Europe 1 Enchanted (Post) Modernity Weird America Haunted Europe Conclusion: New Age (Post) Modernists? Part 1: God''s Shadow 2 Revenge of the Magicians Francis Bacon and the Science of Magic The Philosophes and the Science of Good and Evil Spirits Conclusion: The Myth of Enlightenment 3 The Myth of Absence Nihilism, Revolution, and the Death of God: F. H. Jacobi and G. W. F. Hegel The Eclipse of the Gods: Friedrich Schiller The Romantic Spiral: Friedrich Hölderlin A Myth in Search of History: Jacob Burckhardt Conclusion: The Myth of the Modern Loss of Myth 4 The Shadow of God Spirits of a Vanishing God The Haunted Anthropologist: E. B. Tylor The Magician and the Philologist: Éliphas Lévi and Max Müller Theosophical Disenchantment: Helena Blavatsky Conclusion: Specters of the Transcendent 5 The Decline of Magic: J.

G. Frazer The Cultural Ruins of Paganism The Golden Bough before Disenchantment The Departure of the Fairies The Dreams of Magic The Lost Theory: Despiritualizing the Universe Conclusion: A Devil''s Advocate 6 The Revival of Magick: Aleister Crowley The Great Beast: A Biographical Sketch The God-Eater and the Golden Bough Disenchanted Magic Conclusion: From The Golden Bough to the Golden Dawn Part 2: The Horrors of Metaphysics 7 The Black Tide: Mysticism, Rationality, and the German Occult Revival Degeneration and Mysticism: Max Nordau Kant the Necromancer: Carl du Prel and Arthur Schopenhauer Hidden Depths: Sigmund Freud Conclusion: The Cosmic Night 8 Dialectic of Darkness: The Magical Foundations of Critical Theory The Cosmic Circle Magical Philosophy and Disenchantment: Ludwig Klages The Esoteric Constellations of Critical Theory: Walter Benjamin Conclusion: The Magic of Theory 9 The Ghosts of Metaphysics: Logical Positivism and Disenchantment Philosophical Technocracy: Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer Revolutionary Antimetaphysics: Positivist Disenchantment and Re-enchantment; Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath Positivists in Paranormal Vienna: Rudolf Carnap and Hans Hahn Conclusion: The Magic of Disenchantment 10 The World of Enchantment; or, Max Weber at the End of History The Disenchantment of the World Weber the Mystic and the Return from the God Eclipse Conclusion: Disenchantment Disenchanted Conclusion: The Myth of Modernity The Myths of (Post) Modernity The Myth of Disenchantment as Regulative Ideal Against the Tide of Disenchantment Notes Index.