Research Catalog

Title

Criticism of heaven : on Marxism and theology / by Roland Boer.

Author

Boer, Roland, 1961-

Publication

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

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Details

Description

xxiv, 472 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"This volume consists of a critical commentary on the interactions between Marxism and theology in the work of the major figures of Western Marxism. It deals with the theological writings of Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Louis Althusser, Henri Lefebvre, Antonio Gramsci, Terry Eagleton, Slavoj Zizek and Theodor Adorno. In many cases their theological writings are dealt with for the first time in this book."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; v. 18

Uniform Title

Historical materialism book series ; 18.

Subject

• Bloch, Ernst > Theologie
• Benjamin, Walter > Theologie
• Althusser, Louis > Theologie
• Lefebvre, Henri > Theologie
• Gramsci, Antonio > Theologie
• Eagleton, Terry > Theologie
• Žižek, Slavoj > Theologie
• Adorno, Theodor W. > Theologie
• Communism and religion > Europe, Western
• Communism and Christianity > Europe, Western
• Philosophy, Marxist > Europe, Western
• Communism and Christianity
• Communism and religion
• Philosophy, Marxist
• Marxismus
• Theologie
• Marxisme
• Theologie
• Marxismus > Theologie
• Western Europe

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-461) and indexes.

Contents

Bloch's detective work -- Benjamin's perpetuation of biblical myth -- The ecclesiastical eloquence of Louis Althusser -- The heresies of Henri Lefebvre -- The ecumenism of Antonio Gramsci -- The apostasy of Terry Eagleton -- The conversion of Slavoj Žižek -- Adorno's vacillation.

ISBN

• 9004161112
• 9789004161115

LCCN

• 2007299498
• 10.1163/ej.9789004161115.i-472

OCLC

• ocn141384381
• 141384381
• SCSB-14703824

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library