Mårten Björk - Böcker

This book examines how Gustav Radbruch, H. L. A. Hart, and Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde each addressed the question of the end of law, its function, and its normative foundation within the context of the modern legal and political order. Through a politico-theological reading, it highlights the tension between legal validity and moral legitimacy, as well as the extent to which law can maintain public order without compromising its own claim to justice.The analysis of Radbruch, Hart, and Böckenförde sheds light on how valid law can become unjust, demanding actions that may conflict with individual judgment or morality. It raises questions about natural law, the relationship between morality and law, and law’s ultimate purpose, suggesting that law and politics represent, at best, a relative good. It addresses the broader crisis of legal authority and state sovereignty, the expanding reach of state power, and whether law should instruct, command, or ultimately point beyond itself.The End of Law is of interest to scholars in legal theory, political theology, and the philosophy of law.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 license

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.

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.

This book probes the relationship between Martin Heidegger and theology in light of the discovery of his Black Notebooks, which reveal that his privately held Antisemitism and anti-Christian sentiments were profoundly intertwined with his philosophical ideas.

This book probes the relationship between Martin Heidegger and theology in light of the discovery of his Black Notebooks, which reveal that his privately held Antisemitism and anti-Christian sentiments were profoundly intertwined with his philosophical ideas.

Glänta 1.15 består av texter som inte förhåller sig till ett på förhand uttänkt tema. Det börjar med Elnathan Johns novell om Boko Haram och slutar med att Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak manar oss att öva föreställningsförmågan. Däremellan finner Tormod Otter Johansen att den svenska självbilden sitter i väggarna, medan Felicia Mulinari skriver från ett Malmö som brinner och Lydia Davis sätter ut gammelmormödrar på verandan. Och Alexandru Vakulovski blir ihjälslagen av sin far; Ulrika Dahl spinner trådar mellan mostrar och monster; Elis Burrau uppmanar oss att torka oss om munnen, performativt; Mårten Björk & Göran Larsson tecknar Islamiska statens historia; Adriana Cavarero ställer terrorism & horrorism bredvid varandra; Tobias Hübinette & Lennart E H Räterlinck finner en vit rasmelankoli bland utklädda västerlänningar; Yves Citton introducerar rytmologin; Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson analyserar nya och gamla skadade och Judith Kiros får allt att börja om.

Vilken roll har teologin, läran eller talet om det gudomliga, i ett samhälle där allt färre bekänner sig till en tro och sekulariseringen slagit över i ett postkristet tillstånd? Vilka möjligheter för teologiskt tänkande genereras i en sådan situation? I denna bok samlas texter om teologins roll i en postkristen kontext och vi får svar på frågan om det teologiska tänkandets relevans i ett samhälle där Gud alltmer framstår som ett mysterium som fortfarande hemsöker vår värld med den gäckande frågan: finns det något mer? Teologin visar sig vara en filosofisk disciplin som med nödvändighet griper in i områden som ekonomi, politik och historia och bidrar med ”sitt perspektiv genom att delta i en bredare och gemensam tydning av samtiden.”