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OverviewFull 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: 9781438476391ISBN 10: 1438476396 Pages: 260 Publication Date: 01 November 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. 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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