The Stillborn God Religion, Politics, and the Modern West

Name: The Stillborn God
Author: Mark Lilla

Auteur: Mark Lilla

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Mark Lilla

Engels
Bindwijze overig
9781400043675
01 september 2007
334 pagina's

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Mark Lilla

"A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, The New York Times, and publications worldwide, he is best known for his books The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics, The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics, The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West, and The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction. After holding professorships at New York University and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, he joined Columbia University in 2007 as Professor of the Humanities. He lectures widely and has delivered the Weizmann Memorial Lecture in Israel, the Carlyle Lectures at Oxford University, and the MacMillan Lectures on Religion, Politics, and Society at Yale University.

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Religious passions are again driving world politics. The quest to bring political life under Gods authority has been revived, confounding expectations of a secular future. In this major book, Mark Lilla reveals the sources of this age-old questand its surprising role in shaping Western thought.

The story could not be more timely. Most civilizations in history have been organized on the basis of a political theology a myth or revelation about the correct ordering of society. Yet due to a crisis in Western Christendom nearly five hundred years ago, a novel intellectual challenge to political theology arose in Europe. By portraying religion as an expression of human nature, not a divine gift, modern Western thinkers found a way to free politics from Gods authority and build barriers against destructive religious passions.

But the temptations of political theology are always present, even in the West. As Lilla vividly shows, the urge to reconnect politics to religion remained strong and took novel forms in modern European thought. By the Second World War a forceful political messianism had arisen, justifying the most deadly ideologies of the age.

Making us question what we thought we knew about religion, politics, and the fate of civilizations, Lilla reminds us of the modern Wests unique trajectory and what is required to remain on it.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Bindwijze overig
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 september 2007
Aantal pagina's: 334
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Mark Lilla
Hoofduitgeverij: Knopf Publishing Group

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Editie: 1
Product breedte: 133 mm
Product hoogte: 19 mm
Product lengte: 203 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 135 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 30 mm
Verpakking lengte: 199 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 413 g

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Categorieën: Religie, Spiritualiteit & Filosofie

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