No spiritual investment in the world: gnosticism and postwar German philosophy
Crisis : gnostic dualism in late modernity -- Eschaton : gnostic evil in history -- Subversion : heresy and its modern afterlives -- Nothingness : dialectics of religious nihilism -- Epoch : the gnostic age -- Theodicy : overcoming gnosticism, embracing the world
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca London
Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Series/Journal: | A signal book
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Germany
/ Philosophy
/ Intellectual life
/ Gnosis
B Germany / Philosophy / Intellectual life / Gnosis / History of ideas 1945-2000 |
| RelBib Classification: | BF Gnosticism KBB German language area |
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Table of Contents |
| Summary: | Crisis : gnostic dualism in late modernity -- Eschaton : gnostic evil in history -- Subversion : heresy and its modern afterlives -- Nothingness : dialectics of religious nihilism -- Epoch : the gnostic age -- Theodicy : overcoming gnosticism, embracing the world "This book presents an intellectual history of Gnosticism in postwar German philosophy: Jacob Taubes, Hans Blumenberg, Eric Voegelin, Hans Jonas, Gershom Scholem, and Odo Marquard and their interpretations of the relation between Gnosticism and modernity. Recognizing Gnosticism's world-negation in modernity's rejection of spiritual meaning, they claimed to have 'no spiritual investment in the world as it is'"-- |
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| ISBN: | 1501731009 |