Criticism of religion : : on Marxism and theology, II / / by Roland Boer.
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 W...
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Superior document: | Historical materialism book series, v. 22 |
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Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Historical materialism book series ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (308 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of 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
- Christian communism
- 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.