Minimal Theologies : Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas /

What, at this historical moment "after Auschwitz," still remains of the questions traditionally asked by theology? What now is theology's minimal degree? This magisterial study, the first extended comparison of the writings of Theodor W. Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas, explores remnants...

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Main Author: Vries, Hent de
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Toward a critique of theology
  • A possible internal and external differentiation of Habermas's theory of rationality
  • Paradox and aporia in Adorno's philosophy of nonidentity
  • The construction of occidental subjectivism: reductio ad hominem versus remembrance of nature in the subject
  • The breaking apart of western objectivism and the resurrection of the particular and the ephemeral in the philosophy of history
  • Metaphysical experience
  • Paradox and aporia in Levinas's philosophy of the ethical-religious other
  • Levinas on art and truth
  • The dialectics of subjectivity and the critique of objectivism
  • Loosening logocentrism: language and skepticism
  • From unhappy consciousness to bad conscience
  • "The other theology": conceptual, historical, and political idolatry
  • Appendix: The theology of the sign and the sign of theology: the apophatics of deconstruction.