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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Sjoerd GriffioenPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 337 Weight: 0.963kg ISBN: 9789004331426ISBN 10: 9004331425 Pages: 496 Publication Date: 13 January 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 'A Tale of Two Churches' 2 Postsecular Critiques of Progress and Secularization 3 A Return to the German Secularization Debate Part 1: Karl Loewith and Hans Blumenberg 1 The Loewith-Blumenberg Debate From Overlapping Aversions to Fundamental Differences 1 Introduction 2 Blumenberg's Account 3 Loewith's Account 4 Reevaluation of Blumenberg's Critique 5 Agreements and Disagreements: Suggestions from Secondary Literature 6 Underlying Differences in the Philosophies of Loewith and Blumenberg 7 Conclusion Part 2: The Polemics between Carl Schmitt, Karl Loewith and Hans Blumenberg 2 The Political Theology of Carl Schmitt Secularization, Eschatology and Enmity 1 Introduction 2 Differing Interpretations of Schmitt and His Philosophical Style 3 The Concept of the Political and Decisionism 4 Political Theology and Theory of Secularization 5 The Theological 'Core' of Schmitt's Thought? 6 Philosophy of History and Critique of Modernity 7 Eschatology: Schmitt and the Katechon 8 Schmitt's Stasiology: The Identity of the Political and Theological 9 Conclusion 3 The Loewith-Schmitt Debate on Nihilism and Faith Critique, Post-War Diplomacy and Mutual Suspicion 1 Introduction 2 Loewith's Critique of Schmitt 3 Assessment of Loewith's Critique 4 Schmitt's Attempted Rapprochement and Covert Critique of Loewith 5 Loewith versus Schmitt: Antithetical Theologies 6 Conclusion 4 The Blumenberg-Schmitt Debate and the 'Front Against Political Theology' 1 Introduction 2 Exchange: 'Legitimacy of the Modern Age' versus 'Political Theology' 3 Schmitt: A United Front against Political Theology? 4 Blumenberg: A 'Weak Decisionism' and Turn to Polytheism 5 Assessment: A United Front or Different Lines of Contestation? 6 Conclusion Part 3: Three Perspectives on the Broader Secularization Debate 5 Historiography: The Secularization Debate as 'Ideenpolitik' 1 Introduction 2 The Anti-Enlightenment Camp: Kesting and Koselleck as Followers of Schmitt and Loewith 3 The Pro-Enlightenment Camp: Kamlah and Jaeschke as Followers of Blumenberg 4 Investigating and Problematizing 'Secularization': Lubbe and Zabel 5 Conclusion 6 Theology: The Roots of Modernity and the Metaphorics of Secularization 1 Introduction 2 Theological Views on Secularization 3 Modernity and Christianity: Voegelin 4 History and Christianity: Bultmann 5 Overview and Evaluation 6 Conclusion 7 Politics: Between Heresy and Paganism, the Struggle over Political Theology between Jacob Taubes and Odo Marquard 1 Introduction 2 Walter Benjamin and the Rediscovery of Messianism 3 The Political Theology of Jacob Taubes 4 Liberal Conservatism against the New Left: The Ritter School 5 The 'Political Poly-Theology' of Odo Marquard 6 Evaluation and Reflection 7 Conclusion Part 4: Methodological Reflection 8 Understanding the Secularization Debate Geistesgeschichte and Essentially Contested Concepts 1 Introduction 2 Parallels between the Secularization Debate and Postsecularism 3 Geistesgeschichte and Essentially Contested Concepts 4 The Functions of Geistesgeschichte 5 'Intellectual Virtues' and Criteria for Judgement 6 Application of Rorty's Model to the Secularization Debate 7 Guidelines and Gallie's Pluralist Ethic 8 Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationSjoerd Griffioen, Ph.D. (1987), is a lecturer in Philosophy at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the Netherlands. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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