Styfhals / Symons Genealogies of the Secular

The Making of Modern German Thought
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7641-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought

Presents a historical and philosophical overview of the twentieth-century German debates on secularization and their significance for contemporary discussions about the relationship between theology and modernity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Styfhals, Willem

Symons, Stéphane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Willem Styfhals is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven. Stéphane Symons is Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven.