Politics of Immortality in Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg

Theology and Resistance Between 1914-1945

AvMårten Björk

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Highlighting the central importance of theological configurations of immortality and eternal life from 1914-1945, Mårten Björk explores the key writings of Franz Rosenzweig, Karl Barth and Oskar Goldberg to situate their ideas in relation to the political turmoil of the period, including the rise of social Darwinism, nationalism and fascism.The conversations happening among Christian and Jewish theologians and philosophers on the nature of immortality and eternal life during the period constitute what Björk calls a ‘politics of immortality’. The speculative question of eternal life became a way to address the meaning of ‘a good life’ in a period when millions of lives were lost to war, camps and prisons. This book shows how theology was related to central political concepts and ideas of the era, revealing how the question of immortality pursued by Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg became a way to resist the reduction of life to race, blood and soil.By situating the exact political consequences of theological and metaphysical theories of immortality and eternal life, Björk’s discussion of Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg confronts the perennial question on the relation between life and death and exposes the important connections between political theology and philosophical posthumanism.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-11-30
Mått:156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt:390 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350228269

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Mårten Björk is Associate Fellow at Campion Hall, University of Oxford, UK, and Researcher at Lund University, Sweden.

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[A] concise and consistently incisive presentations of Rosenzweig, Barth, and Goldberg ... Regardless of a reader’s prior familiarity with their work, there is much to be gained by following Björk in his search for a common front of resistance against forms of politics that equate life with a set of biologically determined traits.

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Yearning for a System: Franz Rosenzweig and the Great Paganism of Life2. Abundance and Scarcity: Karl Barth and the Struggle for Existence3. The Animal of the Infinite: Oskar Goldberg and the Science of Evil4. Life Outside Life: Theology and Resistance NoteeBibliographyIndex

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