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FROM DECONSTRUCTION TO RE-ENCHANTMENT: POSTMODERNISM, METAMODERNISM, AND THE REEMERGENCE OF WONDER.

This essay examines the relationship between postmodernism, metamodernism, and the contemporary re-emergence of openness to spiritual and enchanted understandings of reality. It argues that postmodernism, rather than merely producing relativism and nihilism, performed a necessary deconstructive work...

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Publicado en:Journal for Cultural & Religious Theory Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 248 - 267
Autor principal: SHANE, D. A.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Whitestone Foundation Summer2026
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