Genealogies of the Secular: The Making of Modern German Thought
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Secularization and Genealogy -- Religion and Genealogy -- Reflections on the Secular in Twentieth-Century German Thought (Synopsis) -- Secularization, Political Theology and Genealogy Today -- Notes -- Part I Genealogy and Secularization: Conceptual Perspectives...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Albany
State University of New York Press
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Series/Journal: | SUNY Series in Theology and Continental Thought Ser.
SUNY series in theology and continental thought |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Germany
/ Secularism
/ Intellectual history 1900-2018
B Germany / Secularization / Intellectual history 1900-2018 |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Secularization (Theology) ; History B Postsecularism ; Germany ; History B Electronic books B Secularism ; Germany ; History |
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| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Secularization and Genealogy -- Religion and Genealogy -- Reflections on the Secular in Twentieth-Century German Thought (Synopsis) -- Secularization, Political Theology and Genealogy Today -- Notes -- Part I Genealogy and Secularization: Conceptual Perspectives -- Genealogy Trouble: Secularization and the Leveling of Theory -- Weak Genealogical Reason -- Weberian Genealogy -- Weber's Children -- Unsubstantiated Rumors about "Secularization" -- Agamben's The Kingdom and the Glory -- Notes -- "The God of Myth Is Not Dead"-Modernity and Its Cryptotheologies: A Jewish Perspective -- Which Death, of Whose God? -- Factum brutum, or Matter on the Rocks -- "Earth without Heaven": The Story Continues … -- Yes, Yes, but Not Yet: The Specter -- Notes -- Part II Philosophy and the Secular: An Alternative History of the German Secularization Debate -- The "Distance to Revelation" and the Difference between Divine and Worldly Order: Walter Benjamin's Critique of Secularization as Historical Development -- On the Virtuality of Mere Language (Reine Sprache) -- Transformation and Transferal: Blumenberg and Schmitt -- Reference to Biblical Terms: Benjamin's Language Theory -- Threshold-Knowledge: The Span between Creation and Last Judgment -- Benjamin's Critique of People Claiming a "Divine Mandate" -- Task (Aufgabe) versus Exaction (Forderung) -- Creation (Geschöpf) versus Shaped Form (Gebilde) -- Choice (Wahl) versus Decision (Entscheidung) -- Double Reference: Benjamin's Work on Difference -- Notes -- Theology and Politics: Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger before, in, and after the Davos Debate -- Cassirer and Heidegger: The Initial Setting -- Philosophy and Religion in Heidegger -- Philosophy and Theology: Aesthetic Preconceptions -- Cassirer's "Heidegger-Vorlesung" and the Theological Background to the Davos Debate. |
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| ISBN: | 1438476418 |