ISBN:
1350064742
,
9781350064744
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 200 Seiten
,
24 cm
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Bugyis, Eric Apocalyptic Political Theology: Hegel, Taubes and Malabou, Thomas Lynch, Bloomsbury, 2019 (ISBN 978-1-3500-6474-4), xiv + 202 pp., hb £85 2019
Series Statement:
Bloomsbury political theologies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lynch, Thomas, 1982 - Apocalyptic political theology
DDC:
201.72
Keywords:
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
;
Taubes, Jacob
;
Malabou, Catherine
;
Political theology
;
Religion Philosophy
;
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 1770-1831
;
Taubes, Jacob 1923-1987
;
Malabou, Catherine 1959-
;
Apokalyptik
;
Politische Theologie
Abstract:
1.Philosophy, political theology and the end of the world --2.Implicit political theology: Reading Hegel's philosophy of religion --3.Spiritual disinvestment: Taubes, Hegel and apocalypticism --4.Plastic apocalypticism --5.Pessimism and hope in apocalyptic living.
Abstract:
Hegel's philosophy of religion contains an implicit political theology. When viewed in connection with his wider work on subjectivity, history and politics, this political theology is a resource for apocalyptic thinking. In a world of climate change, inequality, oppressive gender roles and racism, Hegel can be used to theorise the hope found in the end of that world. Histories of apocalyptic thinking draw a line connecting the medieval prophet Joachim of Fiore and Marx. This line passes through Hegel, who transforms the relationship between philosophy and theology by philosophically employing theological concepts to critique the world. Jacob Taubes provides an example of this Hegelian political theology, weaving Christianity, Judaism and philosophy to develop an apocalypticism that is not invested in the world. Taubes awaits the end of the world knowing that apocalyptic destruction is also a form of creation. Catherine Malabou discusses this relationship between destruction and creation in terms of plasticity. Using plasticity to reformulate apocalypticism allows for a form of apocalyptic thinking that is immanent and materialist. Together Hegel, Taubes and Malabou provide the resources for thinking about why the world should end. The resulting apocalyptic pessimism is not passive, but requires an active refusal of the world
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 181- 196, - Index
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