The early Frankfurt School and religion
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The early Frankfurt School and religion
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-233) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Are religions tissues of superstition and repression, or repositories of the highest hopes and aspirations of humanity, or perhaps both at the same time? For many of those thinkers who lived through the horrors and upheavals of the first half of the twentieth-century, this old question acquired a new urgency. This volume examines the ways in which the authors of the early Frankfurt School criticized, adopted and modified traditional forms of religious thought and practice. Focusing on the works of Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Otto Kirchheimer and Franz Neumann, it analyzes the relevance of religious traditions and of the Enlightenment critique of religion for modern conceptions of emancipatory thought, art, law, and politics.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Translations Notes on the Contributors Introduction: The Frankfurt School and the Problem of Religion
- M.Kohlenbach & R.Geuss PART I: STUDENTS, THEOLOGIANS, CRITICAL THEORISTS Max Horkheimer's 'Religious Conversion'? A Semantic Analysis
- P.Eitler On the Usefulness and Uselessness of Religious Illusions
- R.Geuss PART II: CONSTRUCTIONS OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE Emerging 'Orders': The Contemporary Relevance of Religion and Teaching in Walter Benjamin's Early Thought
- P.Fiorato Religion, Experience, Politics: On Erich Unger and Walter Benjamin
- M.Kohlenbach Allegory, Metonymy and Creatureliness: Walter Benjamin and the Religious Roots of Modern Art
- B.Maj PART III: LEGAL PHILOSOPHY AND JEWISH TRADITION Law and Religion in Early Critical Theory
- C.Thornhill Jewish Law and Tradition in the Early Work of Erich Fromm
- D.Groiser Critical Theory and the New Thinking: A Preliminary Approach
- H.Caygill PART IV: DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT - RECONSIDERED Does Dialectic of Enlightenment Rest on Religious Foundations?
- R.Bittner Secularisation, Myth, Anti-Semitism: Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment and Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms
- G.Raulet Bibliography Index
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