No spiritual investment in the world: gnosticism and postwar German philosophy

Crisis : gnostic dualism in late modernity -- Eschaton : gnostic evil in history -- Subversion : heresy and its modern afterlives -- Nothingness : dialectics of religious nihilism -- Epoch : the gnostic age -- Theodicy : overcoming gnosticism, embracing the world

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主要作者: Styfhals, Willem 1988- (Author)
格式: Print 圖書
語言:English
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WorldCat: WorldCat
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
出版: Ithaca London Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library 2019
In:Year: 2019
叢編:A signal book
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B 德國 / 哲學 / 精神生活 / 諾斯底主義
B 德國 / 哲學 / 精神生活 / 諾斯底主義 / 觀念史 1945-2000
IxTheo Classification:BF Gnosticism
KBB German language area
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實物特徵
總結:Crisis : gnostic dualism in late modernity -- Eschaton : gnostic evil in history -- Subversion : heresy and its modern afterlives -- Nothingness : dialectics of religious nihilism -- Epoch : the gnostic age -- Theodicy : overcoming gnosticism, embracing the world
"This book presents an intellectual history of Gnosticism in postwar German philosophy: Jacob Taubes, Hans Blumenberg, Eric Voegelin, Hans Jonas, Gershom Scholem, and Odo Marquard and their interpretations of the relation between Gnosticism and modernity. Recognizing Gnosticism's world-negation in modernity's rejection of spiritual meaning, they claimed to have 'no spiritual investment in the world as it is'"--
實物描述:X, 294 Seiten
ISBN:978-1-5017-3100-6
978-1-5017-3099-3