Randall Styers

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Average rating: 4.0 · 39 ratings · 7 reviews · 4 distinct worksSimilar authors
Making Magic: Religion, Mag...

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“while "freedom" from magic is certainly invoked as a constitutive element of modern modes of subjectivity, this freedom is purchased only at the price of potent new forms of social control and regimentation."

-- Making Magic, p. 13”
Randall Styers, Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World

“[Bruno] Latour argues that one of the foundational gestures of western modernity has been the effort to formulate and police a heightened antimony between nonhuman nature and human culture.

-- Randall Styers, Making Magic, p. 17”
Randall Styers, Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World

“Social power is at stake in theory-making, but the workings of this power are often unacknowledged -- and overdetermined.

-- Making Magic, p. 23”
Randall Styers, Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World



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