Taking its cue from the renewed interest in theology among Marxist and politically radical philosophers or thinkers, this study inquires into the reasons for this interest in theology focusing on the British literary theorist Terry Eagleton and the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek, as two contemporary prominent Marxist thinkers. INDICE: Introduction.Aim and Structure.Marxism and Theology.How to Read Eagleton and Žižek.Eagleton and the Sublunar Sublime.Žižek and the Trauma ofFaith.Ideology as Idolatry or Vice Versa.Ideology Critique Beyond the Postmodern.The Embodied Self.The Moderately Rational Nature of Human Beings.Looking Awry.Ideology as Doctrine, Ritual, and Belief.Ideology and the Real.The Continuing Need for a Critique of Ideology.The Need for Faith.The Creed According to Eagleton.Faith, Reason, and Engagement.The Adventures of Spirit.The Importanceof Being Born Again.Catholic Thomism and Hegelian Protestantism.God, Evil, and Freedom.Aquinas and The Void of God.Freedom After Nihilism.The Reason for Evil.Schelling, God and Evil.The Abandonment of God.Against Idolatry: On Not Quite Being Opposites .An Arrested Dialogue.Against the Ethics of the Real: Eagleton on Žižek.Against the Return to the Symbolic: Žižek on Eagleton.On Neighbourly Love.An Anatomy of Hope.Eschatology.Revolution.Communism.Hope.The (Re)turn to Theology Revisited.
- ISBN: 978-0-230-34011-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 254
- Fecha Publicación: 11/05/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido