Adorno and Theology (Philosophy & Theology)

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction Adorno and Theology?......Page 12
Adorno and Theology......Page 13
Theodor W. Adorno......Page 14
A Brief Introduction to Adorno’s Philosophy......Page 15
Adorno’s ‘Inverse Theology’......Page 18
Perils and Clarifications......Page 19
From Systems to Constellations......Page 20
Religion and Theology......Page 21
The Structure of the Book......Page 22
1 Materialism, Theology and the Dialectic of Enlightenment......Page 26
Adorno, the ‘Frankfurt School’ and Religion......Page 29
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Reason, Myth and Mimesis......Page 34
Materialism and Demystification......Page 38
Adorno and Theological Materialism......Page 42
2 Actuality and Potentiality: On Kant and Metaphysics......Page 48
The Kantian Block......Page 49
Milbank and the Kantian Block......Page 58
Metaphysical Experience and Theology......Page 62
3 Social Science and Metaphysical Experience: Negative Dialectics as Crypto-Theology?......Page 67
Critical Theory and Positivism......Page 69
The ‘Positivist Dispute’......Page 71
Conjecture and Refutation or Dialectics?......Page 72
Totality and Reason......Page 76
Value Freedom and Crypto-Theology......Page 80
On the Necessity of a Normative Foundation......Page 83
Social Theory and Empirical Research......Page 87
4 Inverse Theology: Bilderverbot and the Illumination of Non-identity......Page 94
Astrology and the Return to Religion......Page 95
Adorno and Theology......Page 97
The Prohibition on Images: Bilderverbot......Page 99
Interpretations of Adorno’s References to Theology......Page 100
A Negative Theology?......Page 102
Negative Dialectics as a ‘Minimial Theology’ of the Trace?......Page 105
An ‘Inverse Theology’......Page 108
Adorno and Benjamin on Kafka......Page 109
Inverting Feuerbach, Beyond Marx......Page 113
Positive Religion and Judaism......Page 117
Constellation and Revelation: Adorno and Barth......Page 118
5 Politics, Liberation and the Messianic......Page 125
Adorno and the Political......Page 126
Reason or Revolution? The German Student Movement......Page 127
Theory and Practice......Page 130
Adorno and Liberation Theology......Page 133
A Foundational Ground for Political Theology?......Page 138
Messianism and Political Theology......Page 140
6 Religion and the Culture Industry: Spirituality, Rational Choice and the Theology of Correlation......Page 151
‘Spirituality’......Page 152
The Culture Industry......Page 155
Rational Choice Theory and the Scientific Study of Religion......Page 158
A Beautiful Mind?......Page 159
The Presuppositions of Rational Choice Theory......Page 162
Religion as Compensation......Page 165
From A Beautiful Mind to the ‘Beautiful Soul’......Page 170
Adorno on Religion......Page 171
Correlation, Ideology and Damaged Life......Page 174
Inverse Correlation......Page 179
7 Hymns to the Silence......Page 181
Adorno among Christian Theologians......Page 182
Theology after Auschwitz?......Page 194
The ‘Metaphysical Moment’ and Theology......Page 197
Theology and Aesthetics......Page 200
The Weight of Objectivity: Theology as an Empty Shell......Page 201
Thinking with One’s Ears: Hymns to the Silence......Page 203
Reconciliation: From Autonomy to Love......Page 205
Inverse Theology as Negative Correlation......Page 208
Hymns to the Silence......Page 209
Notes......Page 212
Bibliography......Page 234
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