We Are Not Disenchanted

On the spell that flattened the world

Introduction

My thinking on this has shifted over the past few years.

For a long time, I used the word disenchantment. I borrowed it from Charles Taylor, who borrowed it from Max Weber, and I deployed it the way most writers in the re-enchantment conversation deploy it. We are disenchanted. We have lost the world our ancestors lived in. The cosmos that wa…