Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
Ausgabe:
First edition
ISBN:
9781350228245
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9781350228252
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9781350228238
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9781350228269
Inhalt:
"Highlighting the central importance of theological configurations of immortality and eternal life from 1914-1945, Mr̄ten Björk explores the key writings of Franz Rosenzweig, Karl Barth, and Oskar Goldberg to situate their ideas in relation to the political turmoil of the period, including the rise of social Darwinism, nationalism and fascism. The conversations happening between Christian and Jewish theologians and philosophers on the nature of immortality and eternal life during the period constitute what Björk calls a 'politics of immortality' that was able to confront the politics of the nation state successfully. The speculative question of eternal life became a way to address the meaning of 'a good life' in a period when millions of lives were lost to war, camps and prisons. This book shows how the discussion on immortality is related to central political concepts and ideas of the era, revealing how the question of immortality pursued by Rosenzweig, Barth, and Goldberg became a way to resist the reduction of life to race, blood, and soil. By exposing the identification of life with material facts, and the break between life and death as insufficient, Björk makes important connections between political theology and philosophical posthumanism, situating the exact political consequences of theological and metaphysical theories of immortality and eternal life."--
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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1. Introduction -- 1.1 The Monistic Century -- 1.2 A Generation Against History: Rosenzweig, Barth, and Goldberg -- 1.3 Modernity and Immortality -- 2. Yearning for a System: Rosenzweig on Geopolitics and Immortality -- 2.1 The Cognition of the All -- 2.2 Creaturely Existence 2.3 The Struggle for Survival -- 2.4 The Common Sense of Death -- 2.5 The Eternal Being of the Past -- 2.6 The Providence of War -- 2.7 The Ethnos of Immortality -- 2.8 Conclusion -- 3. The Sense of Nonsense: Barth and the End of Survival -- 3.1 Ludwig Feuerbach and the Critique of Religion -- 3.2 Metabolism and the Republic of Nature -- 3.3 The Human Condition -- 3.4 Nachdenken as Nachfolge and Nachleben -- 3.5 The End of Survival -- 3.6 Human, All Too Human -- 3.7 Political Thanatology -- 3.8 Conclusion -- 4. The Animal of the Infinite: Goldberg and the Critique of Nature -- 4.1 Fascism and Archaic Existence -- 4.2 The Biology of Myth -- 4.3 Anthropogenesis -- 4.4 Contra Naturam Vivere -- 4.5 Missionary Hebrewdom -- 4.6 The Abnormality of Life -- 4.7 Soul and Number -- 4.8 Conclusion -- 5. Conclusion: Life Outside Life -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781350228221
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781350228269
Sprache:
Englisch
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