[lbo-talk] Signs of the times

[wrobert at uci.edu]

There is also the work by Ernst Bloch, who is pretty strongly
anti-pauline, particularly his Atheism in Christianity (just reprinted by
Verso) as well as his as of yet Untranslated work Thomas Muntzer as
Theologian of the Revolution (part of Lukacs' History and Class
Consciousness is in conversation with that volume)  My personal feeling is
that the radical kernel of Christianity is to be found in its heretical
trace, found in various sects, who are tied to a very small amount of
famous names (Muntzer, Huss, Winstanley come to mind) but only very rarely
enter into the official records (I have the same affection for Francis of
Assisi as Hardt and Negri)  robert wood


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> But then there is that radical kernel mentioned here before:
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> http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=9914
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> Slavoj Zizek has been called [yada yada]..... In
> The Puppet and the Dwarf he offers a close
> reading of today's religious constellation from
> the viewpoint of Lacanian psychoanalysis. He
> critically confronts both predominant versions of
> today's spirituality­New Age gnosticism and
> deconstructionist-Levinasian Judaism­and then
> tries to redeem the "materialist" kernel of
> Christianity. His reading of Christianity is
> explicitly political, discerning in the Pauline
> community of believers the first version of a
> revolutionary collective. Since today even
> advocates of Enlightenment like Jurgen Habermas
> acknowledge that a religious vision is needed to
> ground our ethical and political stance in a
> "postsecular" age, this book­with a stance that
> is clearly materialist and at the same time
> indebted to the core of the Christian legacy­is certain to stir
> controversy.
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