The Frankfurt School on Religion: Key Writings by the Major Thinkers

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
I Ernst Bloch......Page 28
1 On the Original History of the Third Reich......Page 30
2 Not Hades, But Heaven on Earth......Page 50
3 Hunger, “Something in a Dream,” “God of Hope,” Thing-For-Us......Page 58
4 Marx and the End of Alienation......Page 62
II Erich Fromm......Page 68
5 The Dogma of Christ......Page 70
III Leo Löwenthal......Page 108
6 The Demonic......Page 110
IV Herbert Marcuse......Page 122
7 A Study on Authority......Page 124
V Theodor W. Adorno......Page 156
8 Reason and Sacrifice......Page 158
9 Reason and Revelation......Page 176
10 Meditations on Metaphysics......Page 184
VI Max Horkheimer......Page 220
11 Theism and Atheism......Page 222
12 The Jews and Europe......Page 234
13 Religion and Philosophy......Page 252
14 Observations on the Liberalization of Religion......Page 260
VII Walter Benjamin......Page 266
15 Capitalism as Religion......Page 268
16 Theologico-Political Fragment......Page 272
17 Theses on the Philosophy of History......Page 274
VIII Johann Baptist Metz......Page 284
18 Productive Noncontemporaneity......Page 286
19 Anamnestic Reason......Page 294
IX Jürgen Habermas......Page 300
20 Israel and Athens, or to Whom Does Anamnestic Reason Belong?......Page 302
21 Transcendence from Within, Transcendence in this World......Page 312
22 Faith and Knowledge......Page 336
23 On the Relation between the Secular Liberal State and Religion......Page 348
X Helmut Peukert......Page 358
24 Enlightenment and Theology as Unfinished Projects......Page 360
XI Edmund Arens......Page 380
25 Religion as Ritual, Communicative, and Critical Praxis......Page 382
Index......Page 410