Umfang:
1 online resource (496 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789047421283
Serie:
Historical Materialism Book Ser. v.No. 18
Inhalt:
Why do some of the major Marxists of the twentieth century engage extensively with theology? What is the influence on their other work? This book explores the instersections between Marxism and theology in the work of Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Louis Althusser, Henri Lefebvre, Antonio Gramsci, Terry Eagleton, Slavoj Žižek and Theodor Adorno.
Inhalt:
Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One Bloch's Detective Work -- Argument and advocacy -- From the Bible to sentence production, and back again -- Method: class conflict as a hermeneutical key -- Vagaries of writing -- Oral and written texts -- Forces of redaction -- Biblical criticism -- The politics of interpretation -- The critique of myth -- Exegesis -- The Hebrew Bible -- New Testament -- The return to theology -- Atheism -- Teleology -- Transcendence -- Faith, hope, sin and death -- Conclusion -- Chapter Two Benjamin's Perpetuation of Biblical Myth -- Trauerspiel -- Demons, allegory and flesh (allegorical level) -- Fall and Eschaton (moral and anagogic levels) -- Passagenarbeit -- Method: collector as allegorist -- Passages -- The double allegory of Marxism and theology -- Myth and history -- Appropriation of the maternal function -- Genesis -- Language -- Ursprung -- Salvation history [Heilsgeschichte]: the return of biblical myth -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three The Ecclesiastical Eloquence of Louis Althusser -- Ecclesiastical form: theological writings -- From absent cause to philosophy of religion -- The logical necessity -- Elements of a materialist philosophy of religion -- Ideology -- Myth -- Conclusion: the terminus of (auto)biography? -- Chapter Four The Heresies of Henri Lefebvre -- Threshold -- Exploration -- Worship -- Archaeology -- Heresies -- Blondel -- Joachim de Fiore and mysticism -- Jansen and the Albigensians -- The Devil -- On religion: reading Lefebvre against himself -- Everyday life -- Space -- Women -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five The Ecumenism of Antonio Gramsci -- Ecumenism -- Politics: the 'Eighteenth Brumaire' of the Holy See -- Catholic Action -- Internal conflict: integralists, Jesuits and modernists -- Bewilderment? External alliances -- Intellectuals -- Reformation -- Counter-Reformation and Reformation.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9789004161115
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004161115
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=467944
