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Overview"While the concept of secularization is traditionally used to define the nature of modern culture, and sometimes to uncover the theological origins of secular modernity, its validity is being questioned ever more radically today. Genealogies of the Secular returns to the historical, intellectual, and philosophical roots of this concept in the twentieth-century German debates on religion and modernity, and presents a wide range of strategies that German thinkers have applied to apprehend the connection between religion and secularism. In fundamentally heterogeneous ways, these strategies all developed ""genealogies of the secular"" by tracing modern phenomena back to their religious or theological roots. This book aims to disclose the complex prehistory of the contemporary debates on political theology and postsecularism, and to show how prominent thinkers continue this German tradition today. It explores and assesses the classic theories of secularization that are epitomized in Carl Schmitt's writings on political theology, but also addresses German philosophers whose work has been rarely associated with secularization, including Walter Benjamin, Ernst Cassirer, Martin Heidegger, Immanuel Kant, and Hannah Arendt. Attention is also paid to two thinkers whose role in these discourses has not been fully explored yet: Jacob Taubes and Jan Assmann. By introducing their thinking on religion, politics, and secularization, the book also makes two of their own key texts available to an English-language readership." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Willem Styfhals , Stéphane SymonsPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438476407ISBN 10: 143847640 Pages: 260 Publication Date: 02 July 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback 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 Contents"Introduction Willem Styfhals & Stephane Symons Part I. Genealogy and Secularization: Conceptual Perspectives Genealogy Trouble: Secularization and the Leveling of Theory Kirk Wetters ""The God of Myth Is Not Dead""—Modernity and Its Cryptotheologies: A Jewish Perspective Agata Bielik-Robson Part II. Philosophy and the Secular: An Alternative History of the German Secularization Debate The ""Distance to Revelation"" and the Difference between Divine and Worldly Order: Walter Benjamin's Critique of Secularization as Historical Development Sigrid Weigel Theology and Politics: Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger before, in, and after the Davos Debate Jeffrey Andrew Barash Is Progress a Category of Consolation? Kant, Blumenberg, and the Politics of the Moderns Michael Foessel Hannah Arendt, Secularization Theory, and the Politics of Secularism Samuel Moyn Part III. Jacob Taubes: Secularization, Heresy, and Democracy Secularization and the Symbols of Democracy: Jacob Taubes's Critique of Carl Schmitt Martin Treml On the Symbolic Order of Modern Democracy Jacob Taubes In Paul's Mask: Jacob Taubes Reads Walter Benjamin Sigrid Weigel Part IV. Jan Assmann: a Late Voice in the German Secularization Debate Secularization and Theologization: Introduction to Jan Assmann's Monotheism Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins Monotheism Jan Assmann Contributors Index"ReviewsWhat makes the book so valuable pedagogically is the clarity and scope of its synthetic gestures about the dense questions congealing around the topic of secularization. It offers a pronouncement of central significance, emerging from some of the most important contemporary voices in these fields. The scholarship is internationally informed and engaged, even as it feels vibrant, immediate, and agenda setting. - Ward Blanton, University of Kent, Canterbury """What makes the book so valuable pedagogically is the clarity and scope of its synthetic gestures about the dense questions congealing around the topic of secularization. It offers a pronouncement of central significance, emerging from some of the most important contemporary voices in these fields. The scholarship is internationally informed and engaged, even as it feels vibrant, immediate, and agenda setting."" — Ward Blanton, University of Kent, Canterbury" Author InformationWillem Styfhals is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven. Stéphane Symons is Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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