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Gordon Graham carefully considers the possibility and inherent difficulties of art's project of filling the role of religion and supplying meaning for human life.
He asks this question in turn of literature, visual art, music, architecture, and festival, Fascinating, especially since he finds some crucial gaps in what art affords us despite taking it on the terms suggested by philosophers as diverse as Nietzsche, Gadamer, Schopenhauer, and others.
The Reenchantment of the World is a philosophical exploration of the role of art and religion as sources of meaning in an increasingly material world dominated by science.
Gordon Graham takes

as his starting point Max Weber's idea that contemporary Western culture is marked by a 'disenchantment of the world' the loss of spiritual value in the wake of religion's decline and the triumph of the physical and biological sciences.
Relating themes in Hegel, Nietzsche, Schleiermacher, Schopenhauer, and Gadamer to topics in contemporary philosophy of the arts, Graham explores the idea that art, now freed from its previous service to religion, has the potential to reenchant the world.
In so doing, he develops an argument that draws on the strengths of both 'analytical' and 'continental' traditions of philosophical reflection.

The opening chapter examines ways in which human lives can be made meaningful as a background to the debates surrounding secularization and secularism.
Subsequent chapters are devoted to painting, literature, music, architecture, and festival with special attention given to Surrealism,thcentury fiction, James Joyce, the music of J.
S. Bach and the operas of Wagner, Graham concludes that that only religion properly so called can 'enchant the world', and that modern art's ambition to do so fails.

Gordon Graham, Princeton Theological Seminarys Henry Luce III Professor of Philosophy and the Arts, earned MA degrees from the University of St.
Andrews and the University of Durham, and a PhD degree from the University of Durham, He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotlands premier academy of letters, in.
He is an ordained Anglican priest, and his areas of academic interest include aesthetics, moral philosophy, philosophy of religion, and the Scottish philosophical tradition.
He is editor of the Journal of Scottish Philosophy and a founding editor of the Kuyper Center .