Mendieta The Frankfurt School on Religion

Key Writings by the Major Thinkers
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-1-135-88699-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 414 Seiten

In "The Frankfurt School on Religion," Eduardo Mendieta has brought together a collection of readings and essays revealing both the deep connections that the Frankfurt School has always maintained with religion as well as the significant contribution that its work has to offer. Rather than being unanimously antagonistic towards religion as has been the received wisdom, this collection shows the great diversity of responses that individual thinkers of the school developed and the seriousness and sophistication with which they engaged the core religious issues and major religious traditions.
Through a careful selection of writings from eleven prominent theorists, including several new and previously untranslated pieces from Leo Lowenthal, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas, this volume provides much needed sources for religious leaders, philosophers, and social theorists as they grapple with the nature and functions of religion in the contemporary social, political, and economic landscape.
"The Frankfurt School on Religion" recovers the religious dimensions of the Frankfurt School, for too long sidelined or ignored, and offers new perspectives and insights necessary to the development of a fuller and more nuanced critical theory of society.
Selections and essays from: Ernst Bloch, Erich Fromm, Leo Lowenthal, Herbert Marcuse, Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Johann Baptist Metz, Jurgen Habermas, Helmut Peukert, Edmund Arens.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mendieta, Eduardo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Religiöse Institutionen & Gemeinschaften, Klerus, Mönchstum

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Ernst Bloch
On the Original History of the Third Reich
Not Hades, but Heaven on Earth
Hunger, "Something in a Dream"
God of Hope, Thing-For-Us
Marx and the End of Alienation

2. Erich Fromm
The Dogma of Christ

3. Leo Löwenthal
The Demonic: Project for a Negative Philosophy of Religion

4. Herbert Marcuse
Luther, Calvin, Kant

5. Theodor Adorno
Reason and Sacrifice
Reason and Revelation
Meditations on Metaphysics

6. Max Horkheimer
Theism and Atheism
The Jews and Europe
Religion and Philosophy
Observations on the Liberalization of Religion

7. Walter Benjamin
Capitalism and Religion
Theological-Political Fragment
Theses on the Philosophy of History

8. Johann Baptiste Metz
Productive Noncontemporaneity
Anamnestic Reason: A Theologian's Remarks on the Crisis of the Geisteswisesnschaften

9. Jurgen Habermas
Transcendence from Within, Transcendence in this World
Faith and Knowledge

10. Helmut Peukert
Enlightenment and Theology as Unfinished Projects

11. Edmund Arens
Religion as Ritual, Communicative, and Critical Praxis

Über Autor(innen)

Eduardo Mendieta is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. He is the author or editor of several books including The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy, Identities: Race, Class, Gender, and Nationality and (as editor and translator), Enrique Dussel's The Underside of Modernity.