03222nam 2200697 450 991079061780332120200520144314.090-04-25234-710.1163/9789004252349(CKB)2550000001138679(EBL)1513970(OCoLC)862050346(SSID)ssj0001040793(PQKBManifestationID)11702408(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001040793(PQKBWorkID)11001663(PQKB)11458399(MiAaPQ)EBC1513970(nllekb)BRILL9789004252349(Au-PeEL)EBL1513970(CaPaEBR)ebr10792277(CaONFJC)MIL538349(PPN)17893223X(EXLCZ)99255000000113867920131207h20132014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIn the vale of tears on Marxism and theology, V /by Roland BoerLeiden :BRILL,[2013]©20141 online resource (391 p.)Historical materialism book seriesIncludes index.90-04-25232-0 1-306-07098-8 Includes bibliographies and index.Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Atheism -- Chapter Two: Myth -- Chapter Three: Ambivalence -- Chapter Four: History -- Chapter Five: Kairós -- Chapter Six: Ethics -- Chapter Seven: Idols -- Conclusion: On Secularism, Transcendence and Death -- References -- Index.In the Vale of Tears brings to a culmination the project for a renewed and enlivened debate over the interaction between Marxism and religion. It does so by offering the author's own response to that tradition. It simultaneously draws upon the rich insights of a significant number of Western Marxists and strikes out on its own. Thus, it argues for the crucial role of political myth on the Left; explores the political ambivalence at the heart of Christianity; challenges the bent among many on the Left to favour the unexpected rupture of kairós as a key to revolution; is highly suspicious of the ideological and class alignments of ethics; offers a thorough reassessment of the role of fetishism in the Marxist tradition; and broaches the question of death, unavoidable for any Marxist engagement with religion. While the book is the conclusion to the five-volume series, The Criticism of Heaven and Earth , it also stands alone as a distinct intervention in some burning issues of our time. Winner of the 2014 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.Historical Materialism Book Series52.AtheismCommunismPhilosophy, MarxistReligionTheologyAtheism.Communism.Philosophy, Marxist.Religion.Theology.261.21Boer Roland1961-475442MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790617803321In the vale of tears3717707UNINA