Althusser and Theology
Religion, Politics and Philosophy
Description
Religion has always been an object of philosophical analysis and a platform for political practice. Philosophical thinking is unimaginable without its relation to religion, whether it negates or affirms the latter. Indeed, religion serves as a condition for philosophy.
Althusser and Theology intends not so much to fill a gap in Althusser scholarship as to contribute to the contemporary radical left.
Author Bios
Agon Hamza is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He serves as the co-editor-in-chief of the international philosophical journal Crisis and Critique. His latest publications are Repeating Žižek (2015), a co-authored book with Slavoj Žižek, entitled From Myth to Symptom: The Case of Kosovo (2013) and Althusser and Pasolini: Philosophy, Marxism and Film (2016).
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Publication date: March 20, 2018
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction: Althusser’s Christian Marxism
Agon Hamza
Chapter 1
Althusser and Religion
Stanislas Breton
Chapter 2
Althusser’s Religious Revolution
Roland Boer
Chapter 3
Althusser and the Problem of Eschatology
Warren Montag
Chapter 4
Christianity as a Condition
Agon Hamza
Chapter 5
Splitting Althusser at the Point of Religion
Gabriel Tupinambá
Chapter 6
Between Hegel and Marx: History and Theology in the Early Althusser
Geoff Pfeifer
Chapter 7
Althusser’s Spinozism and the Problem of Theology
Knox Peden
Chapter 8
Escathology à la Cantonade: Althusser beyond Derrida
Vittorio Morfino
Chapter 9
Paul of Tarsus, Thinker of the Conjuncture
Ted Stolze
Chapter 10
From the ‘Hidden God’ to the Materialism of the Encounter: Althusser and Pascal
Panagiotis Sotiris
Chapter 11
From the ‘International of Decent Feelings’ to the International of Decent Actions: Althusser’s Relevance for the Environmental Conjuncture of Late Capitalism
Jana Tsoneva
Chapter 12
Battles of Nostalgic Proportion: The Transformations of Islam-as-Historical-Force in the Ideological Matrix of a Self-Affirming ‘West’
Isa Blumi
Bibliography
Index
