This book is an examination of nineteenth-century interpretations of Socrates by Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche in the light of the contemporary debates over

A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason Ā. Josephson-Stor

Max Weber famously characterized the ongoing process of intellectualization and rationalization that separates the natural world from the divine (by excluding m

"This book presses us to look harder at closely held beliefs and to question deeply rooted premises and commitments with which we are perhaps too comfortable."-

This text reinterprets the modern West's development in terms of mankind's relationship to religion. It argues that the development of human political and psych