{"id":5069,"date":"2019-10-31T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5069"},"modified":"2019-10-31T13:20:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T13:20:03","slug":"enchantment-wonder-in-modern-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/10\/31\/enchantment-wonder-in-modern-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Enchantment: Wonder in Modern Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr Patrick Curry, author of <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/book\/Patrick-Curry\/Enchantment\/9781782506096\" target=\"_blank\">Enchantment: Wonder in Modern Life<\/a> <\/em>introduces us to this unique book, which explores how enchantment plays out in a wide range of contexts \u2013 in love, art, religion and learning, in food and drink, and perhaps most significantly in our relationship with the natural world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/book\/Patrick-Curry\/Enchantment\/9781782506096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Enchantment-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Enchantment-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Enchantment-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Enchantment-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Enchantment.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/book\/Patrick-Curry\/Enchantment\/9781782506096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"84\" src=\"http:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Blog-shouts-and-images-1-300x84.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Blog-shouts-and-images-1-300x84.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Blog-shouts-and-images-1-768x215.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Blog-shouts-and-images-1-1024x287.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Blog-shouts-and-images-1.jpg 1488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I have spent at least fifteen years thinking about and writing <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/book\/Patrick-Curry\/Enchantment\/9781782506096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Enchantment (opens in a new tab)\">Enchantment<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 Looking back, I can see that moments of wonder \u2013 short but deep, overflowing with meaning, and potentially life-changing \u2013 have always been fundamentally valuable to me, something I want to understand, encourage and defend. But it\u2019s also clear that I have long feared and fled disenchantment, their opposite, which I find hard to bear. So, I am happy to have finally found a subject which both satisfies and challenges me. The result is a book that mixes the personal with the scholarly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"287\" src=\"http:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Blog-shouts-and-images2-1024x287.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5073\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Blog-shouts-and-images2-1024x287.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Blog-shouts-and-images2-300x84.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Blog-shouts-and-images2-768x215.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Blog-shouts-and-images2.jpg 1488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Enchantment is essentially the experience\nof wonder. It varies in intensity from charm, through delight, to joy. It is always\nan encounter of some kind, across a gap of differences, and thus a relationship.\nIt involves both self <em>and<\/em> world, mind\n<em>and<\/em> body, spirit <em>and<\/em> matter, so it is never only \u2018psychological\u2019 or \u2018physical\u2019. And,\nunless it goes wrong, it\u2019s not a matter of delusion or fantasy; enchantment\nshows us a <em>truth<\/em> about the world, and\nourselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is what I explore in chapters on some\nof the principal contexts or sites of enchantment in our lives: love, art,\nreligion, food and drink, learning, and nature. I should add that in my\nunderstanding of it, nature \u2013 the more-than-human natural world \u2013 is the\nultimate home of enchantment. All these different kinds of enchantment are, at their\ncore, expressions of natural enchantment. It is always possible for us as\nembodied, ecological beings to experience enchantment. But that adds another dimension\nof concern to what we are now doing to nature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"287\" src=\"http:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Blog-shouts-and-images3-1024x287.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Blog-shouts-and-images3-1024x287.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Blog-shouts-and-images3-300x84.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Blog-shouts-and-images3-768x215.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Blog-shouts-and-images3.jpg 1488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is helpful, even important, to\nunderstand what enchantment <em>isn\u2019t<\/em>.\nTwo contrasts are these: it isn\u2019t what I call Dionysian \u2013 hot, all-consuming,\norgasmic \u2013 and it isn\u2019t what I call Apollonian: cold, controlling, totally\nordered. In enchantment, differences aren\u2019t obliterated, they just stop\nmattering so much. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the same reason, there are a couple of\nchapters on disenchantment. These are mostly where a couple of theories,\ntending to the wild side appear: one called \u2018the Megamachine\u2019 and the other\ncalled \u2018the male wound\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"287\" src=\"http:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Blog-shouts-and-images4-1024x287.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Blog-shouts-and-images4-1024x287.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Blog-shouts-and-images4-300x84.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Blog-shouts-and-images4-768x215.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Blog-shouts-and-images4.jpg 1488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I also discuss a theory I have about being\n\u2018in the moment.\u2019 I believe that it is impossible to be \u2018in the moment\u2019 without engaging\nthe imagination, as well as the senses. The book also considers what you can do\n(and just as important, cannot do) to make enchantment a way of life \u2013 or part\nof a way of life, at least. However, you cannot <em>make<\/em> enchantment do anything, including show up. It\u2019s wild! Enchantment\ncannot be created, managed, directed, rolled out, tested or developed. But you <em>can<\/em> create the conditions it likes, keep\nthe door open, and pay attention if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One thing I didn\u2019t discuss much in the book was this: in a time of suffering and crisis \u2013 ecological, political, social and often personal \u2013 is enchantment essentially frivolous, an unnecessary luxury? I don\u2019t think so. J.R.R. Tolkien (one of my guides) says that \u2018[Enchantment is] as necessary for the health and complete functioning of the Human as is sunlight for physical health\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tolkien also defines enchantment as \u2018a\nlove and respect for other things, \u201canimate\u201d and \u201cinanimate\u201d, an unpossessive\nlove of them as other\u2019. This matters because in the end, we will only fight for\nwhat or who we love. Reason alone isn\u2019t enough. Conversely, Tolkien\u2019s student\nW.H. Auden defines false enchantment as the desire to possess the other or be\npossessed by it. It is the job of glamour \u2013 the controllable fake enchantment\ngenerated by the industries of advertising and spin \u2013 to create profitable\nfalse enchantment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"287\" src=\"http:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Blog-shouts-and-images5-1024x287.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Blog-shouts-and-images5-1024x287.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Blog-shouts-and-images5-300x84.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Blog-shouts-and-images5-768x215.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Blog-shouts-and-images5.jpg 1488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, let me quote Louis MacNeice, a poet who knew a thing or two about enchantment and was also writing in dark times (1939): \u2018Minute your gesture but it must be made \u2013 your hazard, your act of defiance\u2026hatred of hatred, assertion of human values, which is now your only duty.\u2019 This book is my gesture. I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Patrick Curry was born in Canada and has lived in London for over forty years. He is the author of numerous well-regarded scholarly and popular books on topics ranging from environmental ethics to cosmology and literature, and has been a lecturer at the Universities of Kent and Bath Spa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Patrick Curry, author of Enchantment: Wonder in Modern Life introduces us to this unique book, which explores how enchantment plays out in a wide range of contexts \u2013 in love, art, religion and learning, in food and drink, and perhaps most significantly in our relationship with the natural world. 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