Criticism of religion: on marxism and theology

The paradoxes of Lucien Goldmann -- The dialectic of grace the elect and the damned -- Wagering it all -- In the world and yet not -- Theory : the tight of homology -- Homology dialectics -- Is Pascal among the marxists? -- By way of conclusion : marxism as a secular and anti-secular project -- The...

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Published in:Criticism of heaven and earth.
Main Author: Boer, Roland 1961- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill 2009
In: Criticism of heaven and earth. (2)
Year: 2009
Series/Journal:Boer, Roland 1961-, Criticism of heaven and earth. 2
Historical materialism book series 22
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Theology / Critique of religion / Marxism
Further subjects:B Theology Europe, Western
B Philosophical Theology
B Communism and religion Europe, Western
B Philosophy, Marxist Europe, Western
B Communism and Christianity Europe, Western
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Summary:The paradoxes of Lucien Goldmann -- The dialectic of grace the elect and the damned -- Wagering it all -- In the world and yet not -- Theory : the tight of homology -- Homology dialectics -- Is Pascal among the marxists? -- By way of conclusion : marxism as a secular and anti-secular project -- The stumbling block of Fredric Jameson -- Supersession versus a dialectic of ideology and utopia -- Sidestepping religion -- Magic and fantasy -- Feuerbach versus Marx -- The politics of fantasy -- Apocalyptic -- By way of conclusion : towards a dialectic of religion -- The Christian communism of Rosa Luxemburg -- Tactics -- A reformer's zeal -- Betraying the spirit -- A little church history -- Anti-clericalism -- Christian communism -- Consumption versus production -- Completing Cristian communism -- Freedom of conscience -- The enticements of Karl Kautsky -- Text, history, context -- The slipperiness of sacred texts -- The Bible as a cultural product -- Reconstructing economic history -- Differentiation and slaves -- Slaves and other modes of production -- The sacred economy : prolegomena to a reconstruction transitions -- Christian communism -- The forgetfulness of Julia Kristeva -- Flushing out Marx -- Monocausality, or, the taboo of the mother -- The apostle, both ways -- Other-than-human love -- Crucifying the pathologies -- Collectives -- The fables of Alain Badiou -- Banishing the one -- Theology and the event -- A generic procedure of religion -- Pascal's miracle -- Kierkegaard's encounter Paul's fable -- Conclusion:Necessary fables -- The conundrums of Giorgio Agamben -- The search for Paul -- Christology or the problem of Jesus Messiah -- Faith, law and grace as placeholder of the void -- Pre-law or trying to make sense of Paul -- Conclusion: Relativising theology -- The self-exorcism of Georg Lukacs -- A world abandoned by God -- Leap-frogging Christianity -- Autobiographical exorcism -- The Bible and the Beekeeper's manual -- An apparent absence -- Warm marxism -- Autobiography -- Welshness -- The working class -- Conclusion: The vanishing mediator of the Baptist Chapel
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references. - Gesamttitel lt. Vorwort
ISBN:9004176462