Zauber, Verzauberung, encantamento, enchantment

Enchantment is what challenges and even escapes our capacity for rational comprehension. In Being and Time, for example, Heidegger mentions the enchanting powers of the rituals of “primitive” cultures (SZ 81). There is no precise definition of enchantment in Heidegger’s texts, and the term never becomes part of his technical vocabulary. In its ordinary use, enchantment is usually associated with magic and myth, as opposed to rational and scientific thought. As Heidegger becomes increasingly preoccupied with the question of modernity around the middle of the 1930s, he begins to speak about enchantment in a philosophically more pregnant sense. (CHL)

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