Bibliograph

No spiritual investment in the world, gnosticism and postwar German philosophy, Willem Styfhals

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No spiritual investment in the world, gnosticism and postwar German philosophy, Willem Styfhals

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

No spiritual investment in the world

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1036732033

Responsibility statement

Willem Styfhals

Series statement

Signale Ithaca, N.Y

Sub title

gnosticism and postwar German philosophy

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

Table Of 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

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