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Criticism of Heaven
On Marxism and Theology
Roland Boer
Series:
Historical Materialism Book Series, 18
ISBN-13 (i):
978 90 04 16111 5
ISBN-10:
90 04 16111 2
Cover:
Hardback
Number of pages:
xxiv, 472 pp.
List price:
€ 99.00 / US$ 139.00
This volume consists of a critical commentary on the interactions
between Marxism and theology in the work of the major figures of
Western Marxism. It deals with the theological writings of Ernst Bloch,
Walter Benjamin, Louis Althusser, Henri Lefebvre, Antonio Gramsci,
Terry Eagleton, Slavoj Žižek and Theodor Adorno. In many cases their
theological writings are dealt with for the first time in this book. It
is surprising how much theological material there is and how little
commentators have dealt with it. Apart from the critical engagement
with the way they use theology, the book also explores how their
theological writings infiltrate and enrich their Marxist work. The book
has three parts: Biblical Marxists (Bloch and Benjamin), Catholic
Marxists (Althusser, Lefebvre, Gramsci and Eagleton), and the
Protestant Turn (Žižek and Adorno).
Roland Boer, Ph.D. (1993) in Biblical Studies, McGill University, is
Reader in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash
University, Melbourne. He has published extensively in biblical
studies, Marxism, postcolonism, cultural studies, literary theory and
political theory, including Marxist Criticism of the Bible (Continuum
2003).
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