Criticism of religion
Subtitle: on Marxism and theology II
By: by Roland Boer.
Series: Historical materialism book -- v. 22
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9789004176461
Subjects: Philosophical theology; Philosophy, Marxist -- Europe, Western; Theology -- Europe, Western; Communism and religion -- Europe, Western; Communism and Christianity -- Europe, Western
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The paradoxes of Lucien Goldmann; title: The dialectic of grace the elect and the damned; title: Wagering it all; title: In the world and yet not; title: Theory : the tight of homology; title: Homology dialectics; title: Is Pascal among the marxists?; title: By way of conclusion : marxism as a secular and anti-secular project; title: The stumbling block of Fredric Jameson; title: Supersession versus a dialectic of ideology and utopia; title: Sidestepping religion; title: Magic and fantasy; title: Feuerbach versus Marx; title: The politics of fantasy; title: Apocalyptic; title: By way of conclusion : towards a dialectic of religion; title: The Christian communism of Rosa Luxemburg; title: Tactics; title: A reformer's zeal; title: Betraying the spirit; title: A little church history; title: Anti-clericalism; title: Christian communism; title: Consumption versus production; title: Completing Cristian communism; title: Freedom of conscience; title: The enticements of Karl Kautsky; title: Text, history, context; title: The slipperiness of sacred texts; title: The Bible as a cultural product; title: Reconstructing economic history; title: Differentiation and slaves; title: Slaves and other modes of production; title: The sacred economy : prolegomena to a reconstruction transitions; title: Christian communism; title: The forgetfulness of Julia Kristeva; title: Flushing out Marx; title: Monocausality, or, the taboo of the mother; title: The apostle, both ways; title: Other-than-human love; title: Crucifying the pathologies; title: Collectives; title: The fables of Alain Badiou; title: Banishing the one; title: Theology and the event; title: A generic procedure of religion; title: Pascal's miracle; title: Kierkegaard's encounter Paul's fable; title: Conclusion:Necessary fables; title: The conundrums of Giorgio Agamben; title: The search for Paul; title: Christology or the problem of Jesus Messiah; title: Faith, law and grace as placeholder of the void; title: Pre-law or trying to make sense of Paul; title: Conclusion: Relativising theology; title: The self-exorcism of Georg Lukacs; title: A world abandoned by God; title: Leap-frogging Christianity; title: Autobiographical exorcism; title: The Bible and the Beekeeper's manual; title: An apparent absence; title: Warm marxism; title: Autobiography; title: Welshness; title: The working class; title: Conclusion: The vanishing mediator of the Baptist Chapel.