No spiritual investment in the world gnosticism and postwar German philosophy / Willem Styfhals.

Author/creator Styfhals, Willem, 1988-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoIthaca, NY : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2019.
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SeriesA Signale book
Contents Crisis : gnostic dualism in late modernity -- Eschaton : gnostic evil in history -- Subversion : heresy and its modern afterlives -- Nothingness : dialectics of religious nihilism -- Epoch : the gnostic age -- Theodicy : overcoming gnosticism, embracing the world.
Abstract "This book presents an intellectual history of Gnosticism in postwar German philosophy: Jacob Taubes, Hans Blumenberg, Eric Voegelin, Hans Jonas, Gershom Scholem, and Odo Marquard and their interpretations of the relation between Gnosticism and modernity. Recognizing Gnosticism's world-negation in modernity's rejection of spiritual meaning, they claimed to have 'no spiritual investment in the world as it is'"-- Provided by publisher.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Styfhals, Willem, 1988- author. No spiritual investment in the world Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2019 9781501730993
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LCCN 2019001553
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