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The Disenchantment of the World : A Political History of Religion
Marcel Gauchet has launched one of the most ambitious and controversial works of speculative history recently to appear, based on the contention that Christianity is "the religion of the end of religion." In The Disenchantment of the World, Gauchet reinterprets the development of the moder...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
1997.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part One: The Metamorphoses of the Divine: The Origin, Meaning, and Development of the Religious
- The Historicity of the Religious
- Chapter 1. Primeval Religion or the Reign of the Absolute Past
- Chapter 2. The State as Sacral Transforming Agent
- Hierarchy
- Domination
- Conquest
- The Axial Age
- Chapter 3. The Dynamics of Transcendence
- Distancing God and Understanding the World
- Divine Greatness, Human Liberty
- From Myth to Reason
- From Dependence to Autonomy
- Chapter 4. From Immersion in Nature to Transforming Nature
- Indebtedness to the Gods, the Inter-Human Bond, and the relation to things
- The Political Machine
- The Vitality of Change
- The Other World and Appropriating This World
- Heaven and Earth: Christianity's Specificity
- Orthodoxy and Heresy
- Incarnation and Interpretation
- Prayer and Work
- The Structure of Terrestrial Integrity
- The Crowded World
- Collective Permanence
- Peace
- Homo Oeconomicus
- Part Two: The Apogee and Death of God Christianity and Western Development
- Chapter 5. The Powers of the Divine Subject
- A Religion for Departing from Religion
- Israel: Inventing God-as-One
- Moses: Dominating Domination
- The Covenant and Trial By Adversity
- The Prophets
- Jesus: The God-Man
- Messianism
- The Second Moses
- An Inverted Messiah
- Saint Paul: The Universal God
- Christology
- Conquering The Conquerors
- The Christian Revolution: Faith, Church, King
- The Greeks: The Religion of Reason
- The Turn toward Equality
- Chapter 6. Figures of the Human Subject
- Being-a-Self: Consciousness, the Unconscious
- Collective-Being: Governing the Future
- From Subjugated Society To Social-Subject
- The Age of Ideology
- The Child and the Future
- Bureaucracy, Democracy
- The Power of the Identical and the Society of the New
- Living-with-Ourselves: Absorbing the Other
- Political Conflict
- The Separation of the State
- The Religious after Religion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index