ABSTRACT
Due to an illicit extrapolation from ‘desacralization’ to ‘disenchantment’, a great deal of thinking influenced by the Weberian rhetoric around disenchantment failed to take into account the possibilities for the idea of ‘secular enchantment’. This chapter seeks to give a philosophical argument for a secular version of enchantment, and thereby show that, in one sense, we have never been disenchanted. It briefly then reconciles this conclusion with what is, nevertheless, undoubtedly true in Weber’s sociological instincts regarding the ‘disenchantment of the world’.
