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Divining History : Prophetism, Messianism and the Development of the Spirit / Jayne Svenungsson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Making Sense of History ; 26Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785331732
  • 9781785331749
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 181/.06 23
LOC classification:
  • B5802.U86 S9413 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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 -- Post script A Theopolitical Vision -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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 -- Post script A Theopolitical Vision -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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