1st Edition
The Frankfurt School on Religion Key Writings by the Major Thinkers
Edited By Eduardo Mendieta
Copyright 2005
414 Pages
by
Routledge
414 Pages
by
Routledge
414 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
"This volume, and the work of the Frankfurt School, should not be overlooked by anyone seeking to reflect on the place of religion and theology in societies dominated by the discourses of science and consumerism."
--Christopher C. Brittain, Atlantic School of Theology, Anglican theological Review
