Manifesto of the Critical Theory of Society and Religion (3 Vols.): The Wholly Other, Liberation, Happiness and the Rescue of the Hopeless

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BRILL, Aug 16, 2010 - Social Science - 1 pages
The Manifesto develops further the Critical Theory of Religion intrinsic to the Critical Theory of Society of the Frankfurt School into a new paradigm of the Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy and Theology of Religion. Its central theme is the theodicy problem in the context of late capitalist society and its globalization.
 

Contents

Chapter One The Critical Theory of Society
1
Chapter Two The NeoConservative Trend Turn
57
Chapter Three The Threefold Critical Theory of Religion
97
Chapter Four From Quantitative to Qualitative Infinity
153
Chapter Five Theory Formation
189
Chapter Six From Traditional to Critical Theory
229
Chapter Seven Universal Pragmatic
257
Chapter Eight Truth and Justification
287
Chapter Fourteen Religion and Revolution
599
Chapter Fifteen Concrete Utopia
643
Chapter Sixteen Religion in Socialist Society
677
Chapter Seventeen From Magic to the Dialectical Notion
725
Chapter Eighteen Truth as Meaning of Language and Work
767
Chapter Nineteen Religion in Liberal Society
815
The Capital of Liberalism
873
Chapter TwentyOne Religion in Fascist Society
959

Chapter Nine Toward a New Model
331
A Mottoes Impulses and Motives
375
B Special Considerations and Inspirations
390
C The FiveWorld Macro Model
414
D The Fundamental Potentials Categories and Spheres of Action
416
E Heuristic Model of the History of Religions
418
F Antagonisms of Modern Civil Society and their Resolutions
420
G Possible Alternative Futures
423
Chapter Ten External and Internal Perspective
425
Chapter Eleven Consciousmaking and Rescuing Critique
473
Chapter Twelve Necrophilous and Biophilous Elements
509
Chapter Thirteen From the Jus Talionis to the Golden Rule
555
Chapter TwentyTwo The Owl of Minerva
995
Against Aggression Force Violence and Terror
1041
Chapter TwentyFour The JewishGerman Tragedy
1111
Chapter TwentyFive From the Westphalian Peace to the Bourgeois and Socialist Revolutions
1183
Chapter TwentySix The Expansion and Contraction of God
1243
Chapter TwentySeven The Desperate Hope and the Rescue of the Hopeless
1319
Chapter TwentyEight Trust in the Eternal One
1385
God Freedom and Immortality
1445
References
1577
Name Index
1693
Subject Index
1715
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Rudolf Siebert was born in 1927 in Frankfurt a.M., Germany. He received his Licentiate and Ph.D. in Theology from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany in 1962 after studying history, philosophy, sociology, and theology at the Universities of Frankfurt, Mainz, Munster and the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C., U.S.A. Siebert has taught, lectured and published widely in Western and Eastern Europe, Israel, the United States and Canada. He is professor of Religion and Society and Director of the Center for Humanistic Studies at Western Michigan University and of the international course on the Future of Religion in the I.U.C. Dubrovnik, Croatia, and of the international course on Religion and Civil Society in Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine. His previous major works were The Critical Theory of Religion: Frankfurt School, and From Critical Theory to Critical Political Theology: Personal Autonomy and Universal Solidarity.

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