The Myth of Modernity

A few weeks ago I took the time to reread the book that launched my current sequence of posts about enchantment, Jason Josephson-Storm’s intriguing study The Myth of Disenchantment.  One test of a book’s value is whether it can handle being read more than once.  Josephson-Storm’s book stands up well to that test.  Each time I read it, it does the thing you’re not supposed to do while walking in the mountains in winter, and sets lumps of mental snow spilling downslope, setting off avalanches of i...