Normal view MARC view ISBD view

No Spiritual Investment in the World : Gnosticism and Postwar German Philosophy / Willem Styfhals

By:

Styfhals, Willem, 1988- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Project Muse [distributor]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Signale: modern German letters, cultures, and thought | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Library, 2019Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (306 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781501731013

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Online resources:

Full text available:

Contents:

Crisis : gnostic dualism in late modernity -- Eschaton : gnostic evil in history -- Subversion : heresy and its modern afterlives -- Nothingness : dialectics of religious nihilism -- Epoch : the gnostic age -- Theodicy : overcoming gnosticism, embracing the world

Summary: "This book presents an intellectual history of Gnosticism in postwar German philosophy: Jacob Taubes, Hans Blumenberg, Eric Voegelin, Hans Jonas, Gershom Scholem, and Odo Marquard and their interpretations of the relation between Gnosticism and modernity. Recognizing Gnosticism's world-negation in modernity's rejection of spiritual meaning, they claimed to have 'no spiritual investment in the world as it is'"-- Provided by publisher

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

No physical items for this record

Open Access Unrestricted online access star

"This book presents an intellectual history of Gnosticism in postwar German philosophy: Jacob Taubes, Hans Blumenberg, Eric Voegelin, Hans Jonas, Gershom Scholem, and Odo Marquard and their interpretations of the relation between Gnosticism and modernity. Recognizing Gnosticism's world-negation in modernity's rejection of spiritual meaning, they claimed to have 'no spiritual investment in the world as it is'"-- Provided by publisher