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In the Vale of Tears On Marxism and Theology, V

Boer Roland
Innbundet / 2013 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9789004252325
Publisert
2013
Utgiver
Brill; Brill
Vekt
740 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
27 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Innbundet

Forfatter
Boer Roland

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Roland Boer researches at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and teaches at Renmin University of China, Beijing. He has published extensively on Marxism, theology, political theory and biblical criticism. His most recent works are Lenin, Religion, and Theology (Palgrave 2013), Marxist Criticism of the Hebrew Bible (Bloomsbury, 2014) and, with Christina Petterson, Idols of Nations: Biblical Myth at the Origins of Capitalism (Westminster John Knox, 2014).

In the Vale of Tears On Marxism and Theology, V

Boer Roland
Innbundet / 2013 / Engelsk
Boer Roland
Innbundet / 2013 / Engelsk
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<b>Winner of the 2014 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.</b><br />
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"The volume contains three truly excellent chapters [...]" – Marcus Hunt, in: <i>Marx & Philosophy</i>, 4 March 2014<br />
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"A great philosopher once wrote that 'some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested'. The five volumes of Roland Boer's magisterial series Marxism and Theology may well be all three." – Matthew Sharpe, in: <i>Arena Journal</i> 41/42 (2013), [28]-58

Winner of the 2014 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.

In the Vale of Tears brings to a culmination the project for a renewed and enlivened debate over the interaction between Marxism and religion. It does so by offering the author's own response to that tradition. It simultaneously draws upon the rich insights of a significant number of Western Marxists and strikes out on its own. Thus, it argues for the crucial role of political myth on the Left; explores the political ambivalence at the heart of Christianity; challenges the bent among many on the Left to favour the unexpected rupture of kairós as a key to revolution; is highly suspicious of the ideological and class alignments of ethics; offers a thorough reassessment of the role of fetishism in the Marxist tradition; and broaches the question of death, unavoidable for any Marxist engagement with religion. While the book is the conclusion to the five-volume series, The Criticism of Heaven and Earth, it also stands alone as a distinct intervention in some burning issues of our time.
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In the Vale of Tears offers the author's own detailed response to the long and rich tradition of Marxism and religion. It deals with the crucial issues of myth, political ambivalence, kairós, ethics, fetishism and death.
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Preface Introduction Of Old Timber and Lovers On Theology Relativising Theology Theological Suspicion Synopsis 1. Atheism Banishing the Gods? Marxism and Theology Conclusion 2. Myth Prolegomenon Political Myth Anticipation, or Utopia For Example Conclusion 3. Ambivalence Scandal and Folly Folly to the Rich Towards a Marxist Theory of Political Ambivalence The Unwitting The Witting By Way of Conclusion 4. History Method: Search for an Anti-Fulcrum Paul’s Shaky Transitions The Fate of Christian Communism 5. Kairós At the Crossroads of Time Eschatology Ákairos Measure and Immeasure (Negri) By Way of Conclusion: Political Grace 6. Ethics Ethics, Morality and Moralising Care of the Self Greasing the Other Towards Ethical Insurgency Conclusion 7. Idols That Hideous Pagan Idol: Marx and Fetishism On Graven Images: From Liberation Theology to Theodor Adorno Conclusion Conclusion: On Secularism, Transcendence and Death Secular and Anti-Secular Transgressive Transcendence Death References Index
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<b>Winner of the 2014 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.</b><br />
<br />
"The volume contains three truly excellent chapters [...]" – Marcus Hunt, in: <i>Marx & Philosophy</i>, 4 March 2014<br />
<br />
"A great philosopher once wrote that 'some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested'. The five volumes of Roland Boer's magisterial series Marxism and Theology may well be all three." – Matthew Sharpe, in: <i>Arena Journal</i> 41/42 (2013), [28]-58

Winner of the 2014 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.

In the Vale of Tears brings to a culmination the project for a renewed and enlivened debate over the interaction between Marxism and religion. It does so by offering the author's own response to that tradition. It simultaneously draws upon the rich insights of a significant number of Western Marxists and strikes out on its own. Thus, it argues for the crucial role of political myth on the Left; explores the political ambivalence at the heart of Christianity; challenges the bent among many on the Left to favour the unexpected rupture of kairós as a key to revolution; is highly suspicious of the ideological and class alignments of ethics; offers a thorough reassessment of the role of fetishism in the Marxist tradition; and broaches the question of death, unavoidable for any Marxist engagement with religion. While the book is the conclusion to the five-volume series, The Criticism of Heaven and Earth, it also stands alone as a distinct intervention in some burning issues of our time.
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In the Vale of Tears offers the author's own detailed response to the long and rich tradition of Marxism and religion. It deals with the crucial issues of myth, political ambivalence, kairós, ethics, fetishism and death.
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Preface Introduction Of Old Timber and Lovers On Theology Relativising Theology Theological Suspicion Synopsis 1. Atheism Banishing the Gods? Marxism and Theology Conclusion 2. Myth Prolegomenon Political Myth Anticipation, or Utopia For Example Conclusion 3. Ambivalence Scandal and Folly Folly to the Rich Towards a Marxist Theory of Political Ambivalence The Unwitting The Witting By Way of Conclusion 4. History Method: Search for an Anti-Fulcrum Paul’s Shaky Transitions The Fate of Christian Communism 5. Kairós At the Crossroads of Time Eschatology Ákairos Measure and Immeasure (Negri) By Way of Conclusion: Political Grace 6. Ethics Ethics, Morality and Moralising Care of the Self Greasing the Other Towards Ethical Insurgency Conclusion 7. Idols That Hideous Pagan Idol: Marx and Fetishism On Graven Images: From Liberation Theology to Theodor Adorno Conclusion Conclusion: On Secularism, Transcendence and Death Secular and Anti-Secular Transgressive Transcendence Death References Index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9789004252325
Publisert
2013
Utgiver
Brill; Brill
Vekt
740 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
27 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Boer Roland

Om bidragsyterne

Roland Boer researches at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and teaches at Renmin University of China, Beijing. He has published extensively on Marxism, theology, political theory and biblical criticism. His most recent works are Lenin, Religion, and Theology (Palgrave 2013), Marxist Criticism of the Hebrew Bible (Bloomsbury, 2014) and, with Christina Petterson, Idols of Nations: Biblical Myth at the Origins of Capitalism (Westminster John Knox, 2014).

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