Divining History - Jayne Svenungsson

Divining History

Prophetism, Messianism and the Development of the Spirit
Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2016
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-173-2 (ISBN)
123,45 inkl. MwSt
Messianic ideas of impending redemption have inspired and engendered struggles for justice, yet also violent utopian ideologies. This book analyzes the double-edged legacy of Judeo-Christian theologies of history by exploring their impact on subsequent philosophies of history and political ideologies.
For millennia, messianic visions of redemption have inspired men and women to turn against unjust and oppressive orders. Yet these very same traditions are regularly decried as antecedents to the violent and authoritarian ideologies of modernity. Informed in equal parts by theology and historical theory, this book offers a provocative exploration of this double-edged legacy. Author Jayne Svenungsson rigorously pursues a middle path between utopian arrogance and an enervated postmodernism, assessing the impact of Jewish and Christian theologies of history on subsequent thinkers, and in the process identifying a web of spiritual and intellectual motifs extending from ancient Jewish prophets to contemporary radicals such as Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Zizek.

 

Jayne Svenungsson is Professor of Systematic Theology at Lund University, Sweden. She is part of the interdisciplinary research program “Time, Memory and Representation: Transformations in Historical Consciousness.” Her recent publications include the books Jewish Thought, Utopia, and Revolution and Monument and Memory.

Preface



Chapter 1. The God of History

Chapter 2. The Ages of History

Chapter 3. Romantic History

Chapter 4. History after God

Chapter 5.The Politics of History

Postface: A Theopolitical Vision



Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Making Sense of History
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Judentum
ISBN-10 1-78533-173-6 / 1785331736
ISBN-13 978-1-78533-173-2 / 9781785331732
Zustand Neuware
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