Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Enchanted (Post) Modernity 22
6. Part 1: God’s Shadow
7. 2. Revenge of the Magicians 41
8. 3. The Myth of Absence 63
9. 4. The Shadow of God 94
10. 5. The Decline of Magic: J. G. Frazer 125
11. 6. The Revival of Magick: Aleister Crowley 153
12. Part 2: The Horrors of Metaphysics
13. 7. The Black Tide: Mysticism, Rationality, and the German Occult Revival 179
14. 8. Dialectic of Darkness: The Magical Foundations of Critical Theory 209
15. 9. The Ghosts of Metaphysics: Logical Positivism and Disenchantment 240
16. 10. The World of Enchantment; or, Max Weber at the End of History 269
17. Conclusion: The Myth of Modernity 302
18. Notes 317
19. Index 395