Most germane to understanding the point of this chapter is appreciating what Taylor calls the “triple embedding” of premodern societies, a configuration of society that goes along with what he’s been calling enchantment: “Human agents are embedded in society, society in the cosmos, and the cosmos incorporates the divine” (p. 152).15 The disembedding, then, happens gradually by targeting different facets of this triple embedding (e.g., disenchantment targets the third aspect; social contract theory targets the second aspect; etc.).
