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Criticism of Theology provides a detailed and critical commentary on the continued fascination with religion by yet more significant Marxist philosophers, historians and critics: Max Horkheimer, E.P. Thompson, G.E.M. de Ste. Croix, Michael Lowy, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Ant...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boer, Roland, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Colección:Historical materialism book series ; 27.
Temas:
Communism and religion.
Socialism and religion.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
RELIGION > Essays.
RELIGION > Reference.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The Superstitions of Max Horkheimer
  • Religion as resistance
  • Longing for the totally other
  • The founder
  • On freedom and the individual
  • Atheism and resistance
  • Honest religion
  • Religion betrayed
  • The state
  • On the Jewish state
  • Liberal theology
  • Religion in the bad sense, or, the dialectic of evil
  • Conclusion: Modalities of the dialectic of religion
  • 2. The Dissent of E.P. Thompson
  • Corrupt parsons and the impetuous Irish
  • The 'psychic terror' of Methodism
  • Religious terrorism
  • Moral machinery
  • Political reaction
  • Radicals in the ranks
  • The ambivalence of the Methodists
  • William Blake and the politics of radical dissent
  • Antinomianism, or, justification by faith
  • Muggletonian Marxists
  • Radical dissent
  • Poetry and apocalyptic
  • Anti-nuclear
  • Political Christmas
  • Conclusion
  • 3. The Zeal of G.E.M. de Ste. Croix
  • The politics of style
  • Theology
  • Chora versus polis
  • From chora to polis: property, slavery and women
  • Assessment
  • Fall narratives
  • On contradiction
  • Religion as primary cause
  • ... And history
  • Class
  • Trade and property
  • Mode of production
  • Conclusion: Ste. Croix among Marxists and theologians
  • 4. The Alchemy of Michael Löwy
  • Elective affinities
  • Emergence
  • Untidy corners and sexy dialectics
  • Liberation theology
  • Roman-Catholic social teaching
  • The ontological reserve
  • One or many?
  • Conclusion
  • 5. The Myths of Roland Barthes
  • Between description and accusation
  • Basics
  • Baleful deformations of language
  • Desperate resistance
  • Dialectics of opposition
  • Hiding something?
  • Producing and concealing opposition
  • Preserving rebellion
  • The cunning of myth
  • Alternative myths
  • Towards utopia
  • Conclusion
  • 6. The Flights of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
  • Going tribal, or, primitive pre-signifiers
  • Numbers and nomads, or, the counter-signifying régime
  • In bed with the despot, or, the signifying régime
  • The scapegoat's arse
  • From outside to inside
  • Oriental despots
  • On the tail of the scapegoat, or, the post-signifying régime
  • Conclusion
  • 7. The Radical Homiletics of Antonio Negri
  • Radical homiletics
  • Philosophical commentary
  • Kairós and ákairos
  • Measure and immeasure
  • The politics of cosmogony
  • Negri's aporia
  • Excursus on the Messiah
  • Back to the whirlwind
  • Conclusion.

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