Enchantment - Wonder in Modern Life

This unique book explores how enchantment plays out in a wide range of contexts ¿ in love, art, religion and learning, in food and drink, and perhaps most significantly in our relationship with the natural world.

List of contents

1. Introduction
2. The Dynamics of Enchantment
3. Love
4. Art
5. Religion
6. Food and Drink
7. Learning
8. Nature
9. Disenchantment
10. Technoscience
11. Enchantment as a Way of Life
Endnotes
A Bibliographical Note
Acknowledgements
Index

About the author

Dr Patrick Curry was born in Canada and has lived in London for over forty years. He is the author of numerous well-regarded scholarly and popular books on topics ranging from environmental ethics to cosmology and literature, and has been a lecturer at the Universities of Kent and Bath Spa. His books include Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien, Myth and Modernity and Ecological Ethics. He is also editor-in-chief of an online journal, The Ecological Citizen. In 2019, he was elected a Companion of the Guild of St George.

Summary

This unique book explores how enchantment plays out in a wide range of contexts ? in love, art, religion and learning, in food and drink, and perhaps most significantly in our relationship with the natural world.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Curry, Curry Patrick, Patrick Curry
• Publisher: Floris Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781782506096
• ISBN: 978-1-78250-609-6
• No. of pages: 152
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Ancient knowledge, ancient cultures; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, Philosophy of Mind, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Mysticism, Philosophy: aesthetics