Early Frankfurt School and Religion

Name: Early Frankfurt School and Religion
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ISBN: 9780230523593

ISBN-10: 0230523595

ISBN-13: 9780230523593

Edition: 2005

Authors: M. Kohlenbach, R. Geuss

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Are religions tissues of superstition and repression, or repositories of the highest hopes and aspirations of humanity, or perhaps both at the same time? For many of those thinkers who lived through the horrors and upheavals of the first half of the twentieth century, this old question acquired a new urgency. this volume examines the ways in which the authorsof 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 of the Enlightenment critique of religion…

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List price: $120.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 12/14/2004
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 263
Language: English

Introduction
Students, Theologians, Critical Theorists
Max Horkheimer's 'Religious Conversion'? A Semantic Analysis
On the Usefulness and Uselessness of Religious Illusions
Constructions of Religious Experience
Emerging 'Orders': The Contemporary Relevance of Religion and Teaching in Walter Benjamin's Early Thought
Religion, Experience, Politics: On Erich Unger and Walter Benjamin
Allegory, Metonymy and Creatureliness: Walter Benjamin and the Religious Roots of Modern Art
Legal Philosophy and Jewish Tradition
Law and Religion in Early Critical Theory
Jewish Law and Tradition in the Early Work of Erich Fromm
Critical Theory and the New Thinking: A Preliminary Approach
Dialectic of Enlightenment - Reconsidered
Does Dialectic of Enlightenment Rest on Religious Foundations?
Secularisation, Myth, Anti-Semitism: Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment and Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms
Bibliography
Index
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