It's a French word for the retreat from reality and enlightenment values into some sort of political or religious utopia that magically resolves all the conflicts and paradoxes of modern life. Fascism, Naziism and Communism were the 20th century's reenchantment challenges.
Radical Islam is ours. More Frenchified philosophizing (in a good way) at the link.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/laure-mandeville-obama-and-the-refusal-to-call-a-cat-a-cat-1422232092
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