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Criticism of religion : on Marxism and theology, II /

Criticism of Religion asks why and how some of the leading Marxist critics deal with the question of religion and theology. It offers a spirited critical commentary on the work of Lucien Goldmann, Fredric Jameson, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Kautsky, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben, Georg Luk...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boer, Roland, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Colección:Historical materialism book series ; 22.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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 fit 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 Lukács
  • 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.