Criticism of religion : on Marxism and theology, II / by Roland Boer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boer, Roland, 1961-

Series:

Historical materialism book series ; 22.

Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; v. 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical theology.

Philosophy, Marxist--Europe, Western.

Philosophy, Marxist.

Theology--Europe, Western.

Theology.

Communism and religion--Europe, Western.

Communism and religion.

Communism and Christianity--Europe, Western.

Communism and Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Criticism of Religion offers a spirited critical commentary on the engagements with religion and theology by a range of leading Marxist philosophers and critics: Lucien Goldmann, Fredric Jameson, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Kautsky, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben, Georg Lukács, and Raymond Williams. Apart from offering sustained critique, the aim is to gather key insights from these critics in order to develop a comprehensive theory of religion. The book follows on the heels of the acclaimed Criticism of Heaven , being the second volume of a five volume series called Criticism of Heaven and Earth .

Contents:

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

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 Lukacs

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-60173-3

9786612601736

90-474-2990-7

OCLC:

593295873

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004176461.i-284 DOI