No spiritual investment in the world : gnosticism and postwar German philosophy /

"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-neg...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Styfhals, Willem, 1988- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library 2019
Series:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvvndm3
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