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Marx, Marxism and the Spiritual book cover

1st Edition

Marx, Marxism and the Spiritual

Edited By Anjan Chakrabarti, Anup Dhar, Serap A. Kayatekin Copyright 2020
400 Pages
by Routledge

400 Pages
by Routledge

400 Pages
by Routledge
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While Marxian theory has produced a sound and rigorous critique of capitalism, has it faltered in its own practice of social transformation? Has it faltered because of the Marxian insistence on the hyper-secularization of political cultures? The history of religions – with the exception of some spiritual traditions – has not been any less heartless and soulless. This book sets up a much-needed... Read more

Editors' Introduction

Anjan Chakrabarti, Anup Dhar and Serap A. Kayatekin

Theory

1. Rethinking Marx and the Spiritual

Kevin M. Brien

2. Spirituality Beyond Man: Toward a Labor Theory of the Soul

Oxana Timofeeva

3. Marx, Foucault, and the Secularization of Western Culture

Vivek Dhareshwar

4. What Kind of "Life Affirmation"? Disentangling the Conflation of Spinoza and Nietzsche

Jan Rehmann

5. Specter and Spirit: Ernst Bloch, Jacques Derrida, and the Work of Utopia

Jason Kosnoski

6. Ernst Bloch and the Spirituality of Utopia

Peter Thompson

7. Reading Marx with Levinas

Serap A. Kayatekin and Jack Amariglio

8. Liberation Theology and Marxism

Enrique Dussel, Irene B. Hodgson and Jose Pedroso

Practice

9. Saint Francis in Climate-Changing Times: Form of Life, the Highest Poverty, and Postcapitalist Politics

Stephen Healy

10. Faiths with a Heart and Heartless Religions: Devout Alternatives to the Merciless Rationalization of Charity

Cihan Tugal

11. Gramsci’s Concept of the "Simple": Religion, Common Sense, and the Philosophy of Praxis

Marcus E. Green

12. Subalterns, Religion, and the Philosophy of Praxis in Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks

Fabio Frosini

13. Marxism as Asketic, Spirituality as Phronetic: Rethinking Praxis

Anup Dhar and Anjan Chakrabarti

Social Context of Theory and Practice

14. Religion in Russian Marxism

Ross Wolfe

15. Serving the Sighs of the Working Class in South Africa with Marxist Analysis of the Bible as a Site of Struggle

Gerald West

16. Inner Life, Politics, and the Secular: Is There a "Spirituality" of Subalterns and Dalits? Notes on Gramsci and Ambedkar

Cosimo Zene

Conversations

17. "I am sure that you are more pessimistic than I am...": An interview with Giorgio Agamben

Jason Smith

18. Crossing Materialism and Religion: An Interview on Marxism and Spirituality with the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

Anup Dhar, Anjan Chakrabarti and Serap A. Kayatekin

19. Transcendence, Spirituality, Practices, Immanence: A Conversation with Antonio Negri

Judith Revel

Biography

Anjan Chakrabarti, Professor of Economics, University of Calcutta, India.

Anup Dhar, Professor of Philosophy, Ambedkar University Delhi, India.

Serap A. Kayatekin, Professor, American College of Thessaloniki, Greece.

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