As we have already noted, it is the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman who describes postmodernity in terms of "re-enchantment". "Post-modernity, one may as well say, brings "re-enchantment" of the world after the protracted and earnest, though in the end inconclusive, modern struggle to dis-enchant it."¹ It was the sociologist Max Weber who declared the world conjured by technology was a dis-enchanted world. Many people are now familiar with this story in which science, the spirit of techne, empiricism, positivism and materialism all offered to explain the world and as a consequence expunged its mystery.