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082 0 4 _a261.2/1
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100 1 _aBoer, Roland,
_d1961-
245 1 0 _aIn the vale of tears :
_bon Marxism and theology, V /
_cby Roland Boer.
263 _a1312--
264 1 _aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c2014.
300 _a1 online resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aHistorical materialism,
_x1570-1522 ;
_vv. 52
500 _aIncludes index.
505 0 0 _aPreliminary Material -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Atheism -- Chapter Two: Myth -- Chapter Three: Ambivalence -- Chapter Four: History -- Chapter Five: Kairós -- Chapter Six: Ethics -- Chapter Seven: Idols -- Conclusion: On Secularism, Transcendence and Death -- References -- Index.
520 _aIn the Vale of Tears brings to a culmination the project for a renewed and enlivened debate over the interaction between Marxism and religion. It does so by offering the author's own response to that tradition. It simultaneously draws upon the rich insights of a significant number of Western Marxists and strikes out on its own. Thus, it argues for the crucial role of political myth on the Left; explores the political ambivalence at the heart of Christianity; challenges the bent among many on the Left to favour the unexpected rupture of kairós as a key to revolution; is highly suspicious of the ideological and class alignments of ethics; offers a thorough reassessment of the role of fetishism in the Marxist tradition; and broaches the question of death, unavoidable for any Marxist engagement with religion. While the book is the conclusion to the five-volume series, The Criticism of Heaven and Earth , it also stands alone as a distinct intervention in some burning issues of our time. Winner of the 2014 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.
600 1 0 _aMarx, Karl,
_d1818-1883.
650 0 _aPhilosophy, Marxist.
650 0 _aAtheism.
650 0 _aCommunism.
650 0 _aTheology.
650 0 _aReligion.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tIn the Vale of Tears: On Marxism and Theology, V
_dLeiden, Boston : BRILL, 2014,
_z9789004252325
830 0 _aHistorical Materialism Book Series
_v52.
830 0 _aSocial Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2014, ISBN: 9789004262508.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004252349
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_d34533