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In the vale of tears : on Marxism and theology, V / by Roland Boer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boer, Roland, 1961-
- Series:
- Historical Materialism Book Series 52.
- Historical materialism book series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Atheism.
- Communism.
- Philosophy, Marxist.
- Religion.
- Theology.
- Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
- Marx, Karl.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (391 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : BRILL, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the Vale of Tears brings to a culmination the project for a renewed and enlivened debate over the interaction between Marxism and religion. It does so by offering the author's own response to that tradition. It simultaneously draws upon the rich insights of a significant number of Western Marxists and strikes out on its own. Thus, it argues for the crucial role of political myth on the Left; explores the political ambivalence at the heart of Christianity; challenges the bent among many on the Left to favour the unexpected rupture of kairós as a key to revolution; is highly suspicious of the ideological and class alignments of ethics; offers a thorough reassessment of the role of fetishism in the Marxist tradition; and broaches the question of death, unavoidable for any Marxist engagement with religion. While the book is the conclusion to the five-volume series, The Criticism of Heaven and Earth , it also stands alone as a distinct intervention in some burning issues of our time. Winner of the 2014 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Atheism
- Chapter Two: Myth
- Chapter Three: Ambivalence
- Chapter Four: History
- Chapter Five: Kairós
- Chapter Six: Ethics
- Chapter Seven: Idols
- Conclusion: On Secularism, Transcendence and Death
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 6, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 90-04-25234-7
- OCLC:
- 862050346
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004252349 DOI
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