The Frankfurt School on Religion

In "The Frankfurt School on Religion", Eduardo Mendieta has brought together a collection of readings and essays revealing both the deep connections that the Frankfurt School has always maintained with religion as well as the significant contribution that its work has to offer. Rather than being unanimously antagonistic towards religion as has been the received wisdom, this collection shows the great diversity of responses that individual thinkers of the school developed and the seriousness and sophistication with which they engaged the core religious issues and major religious traditions. Through a careful selection of writings from eleven prominent theorists, including several new and previously untranslated pieces from Leo Lowenthal, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas, this volume provides much needed sources for religious leaders, philosophers, and social theorists as they grapple with the nature and functions of religion in the contemporary social, political, and economic landscape. "The Frankfurt School on Religion" recovers the religious dimensions of the Frankfurt School, for too long sidelined or ignored, and offers new perspectives and insights necessary to the development of a fuller and more nuanced critical theory of society.

ISBN 0415966973   Pages 320 ISBN13 9780415966979 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 562 Imprint Routledge   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 14 Dec 2004   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress 2004019354   Spine width (mm) 22 DEWEY 200   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

		Introduction : religion as critique : theology as social critique and enlightened reason by Eduardo Mendieta		1
Pt. I		Ernst Bloch
1		On the original history of the Third Reich		21
2		Not Hades, but heaven on earth		41
3		Hunger, "something in a dream," God of hope, thing-for-us		49
4		Marx and the end of alienation		52
Pt. II		Erich Fromm
5		The dogma of Christ		61
Pt. III		Leo Lowenthal
6		The demonic : project for a negative philosophy of religion		101
Pt. IV		Herbert Marcuse
7		A study on authority : Luther, Calvin, Kant		115
Pt. V		Theodor W. Adorno
8		Reason and sacrifice		149
9		Reason and revelation		167
10		Meditations on metaphysics		175
Pt. VI		Max Horkheimer
11		Theism and atheism		213
12		The Jews and Europe		225
13		Religion and philosophy		243
14		Observations on the liberalization of religion		251
Pt. VII		Walter Benjamin
15		Capitalism as religion		259
16		Theological-political fragment		263
17		Theses on the philosophy of history		265
Pt. VIII		Johann Baptist Metz
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