Minimal Theologies : Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas /

Minimal Theologies : Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas / / Hent de Vries ; translated by Geoffrey Hale.

What, at this historical moment "after Auschwitz," still remains of the questions traditionally asked by theology? What now is theology's minimal degree? This magisterial study, the first extended comparison of the writings of Theodor W. Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas, explores remnants...

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Vries, Hent de.
Language:English
German
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 online resource (xxxiv, 720 pages))
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  • The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
  • Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.
  • Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Toward a critique of theology
  • A possible internal and external differentiation of Habermas's theory of rationality
  • Paradox and aporia in Adorno's philosophy of nonidentity
  • The construction of occidental subjectivism: reductio ad hominem versus remembrance of nature in the subject
  • The breaking apart of western objectivism and the resurrection of the particular and the ephemeral in the philosophy of history
  • Metaphysical experience
  • Paradox and aporia in Levinas's philosophy of the ethical-religious other
  • Levinas on art and truth
  • The dialectics of subjectivity and the critique of objectivism
  • Loosening logocentrism: language and skepticism
  • From unhappy consciousness to bad conscience
  • "The other theology": conceptual, historical, and political idolatry
  • Appendix: The theology of the sign and the sign of theology: the apophatics of deconstruction.

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