| Description |
x, 263 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : the Frankfurt School and the problem of religion / Margarete Kohlenbach and Raymond Geuss -- 1. Max Horkheimer's supposed 'religious conversion' : a semantic analysis / Pascal Eitler -- 2. On the usefulness and uselessness of religious illusions / Raymond Geuss -- 3. Emerging 'orders' : the contemporary relevance of religion and teaching in Walter Benjamin's early thought / Pierfrancesco Fiorato -- 4. Religion, experience, politics : on Erich Unger and Walter Benjamin / Margarete Kohlenbach -- 5. Allegory, metonymy and creatureliness : Walter Benjamin and the religious roots of modern art / Barnaba Maj -- 6. Law and religion in early critical theory / Chris Thornhill -- 7. Jewish law and tradition in the early work of Erich Fromm / David Groiser -- 8. Critical theory and the new thinking : a preliminary approach / Howard Caygill -- 9. Does Dialectic of enlightenment rest on religious foundations? / Rudiger Bittner |
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10. Secularisation, myth, anti-Semitism : Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of enlightenment and Cassirer's Philosophy of symbolic forms / Gerard Raulet |
| Summary |
"This volume examines the ways in which the authors of the early Frankfurt School criticised, adopted and modified traditional forms of religious thought and practice. Focusing on the works of Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Otto Kirchheimer and Franz Neumann, it analyses the relevance of religious traditions and the Enlightenment critique of religion for modern conceptions of emancipatory thought, art, law, and politics."--BOOK JACKET |
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Frankfurt school |
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Religion |
| Notes |
"This book is the result of a working conference held at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at the University of Bielefeld in September 2003" |
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Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Institut für Sozialforschung (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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Critical theory.
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Frankfurt school of sociology.
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Philosophy and religion -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Religion -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century.
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Sociology -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Geuss, Raymond.
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Kohlenbach, Margarete.
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| LC no. |
2004048940 |
| ISBN |
1403935572 (hbk.) |
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