“What epoch is this we are entering or have entered? What is this time? What time is it?” To answer,…
Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm
Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm is professor of religion at Williams College and Chair of Science & Technology Studies. Storm received his PhD from Stanford University and has held visiting positions at Princeton University, École Française d’Extrême-Orient, Paris, and Leipzig University, Germany. He is the author of the award-winning The Invention of Religion in Japan (2012), The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity and the Birth of the Human Sciences (2017), and “Metamodernism: The Future of Theory after Postmodernism” (under consideration).
The Myth of Disenchantment: An Introduction
A great many theorists have argued that precisely what makes the modern world “modern” is that people no longer believe…
Modern spirits
The Modern Spirit of Asia is like a brilliant pencil sketch for an uncompleted oil painting. Something inspiring appears in…