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... faith in revelation possible; the psychologization of revelation is tantamount to its secularization and is predicated on atheism. This position, Voegelin recognized, leads to further questions, for the problem of revelation is intimately connected to “the problem of recognizing revelation...

... for the Heidegger reception. The article considers the implications of this history for the use of the concept of secularization in intellectual history by examining the Löwith-Blumenberg controversy. © 2015 by New German Critique, Inc. 2015 atheism dialectical theology existentialism neo-scholasticism...

... . Adorno: The Recovery of Experience . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2007 . Geroulanos Stefanos . An Atheism That Is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2010 . Gordon Peter . Adorno and Existence . Cambridge, MA...

... to the critique of religion, but the emphasis moves toward the political and especially toward the fear of violent death, which became the origin of Hobbes’s principle of natural right. Strauss concludes that Hobbes’s critique of religion converges with atheism and follows from his political assumptions...

... them. How- ever, this is not a dualist, essentialist, or Neoplatonic model but what Bloch described as his attempt to represent a nontranscendental transcendent. The transcendent is thus brought back down to earth without losing its power of transcendence. As Bloch puts it in Atheism...

...). Samuel Moyn 85 debates, it is because she insists—unlike the original advocates of the label and their contemporary descendants—that such secular commitments as atheism and secular movements as communism are not simply religions that dare not speak their names (in Voegelin’s view, for instance...

... as a combination of atheism and mono- theism: “The strife-torn world demands a strife-torn individual. The strife would not go to the root of the individual. . . . [Weber] had to combine the anguish bred by atheism (the absence of any redemption, of any solace) with the anguish bred by revealed religion...

.... Jameson’s patently modernist characterization of post- modernity as “negating” what preceded it arguably puts him in the position of the complacent atheists whom Nietzsche’s crazy man attempts to awake to the implications of their atheism. What presumably distinguishes postmodernist “obliteration...

...-Williams paraphrase of anar- chy as “atheism” or of monarchy and polyarchy as “monotheism” and “polytheism.” The transla- tion paraphrase in this way entirely dulls the politicotheological aspect of the text. 29. Peterson, Der Monotheismus, 102. 30. Schindler, Monotheismus als politisches...

... Weyl’s name, of the homage he pays you . . . when he writes: ‘The precise articulation of these thoughts This essay includes a partial, modified version of the first chapter of my book An Atheism That Is Not Humanist (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010); the discussion of Gestalt...

... that atheism is our destiny?” Taubes then says that in confronting these questions “the present situation is much more difficult than the one at the turn of the Christian era [Zeitenwende] because we, despite the boom on religion’s stock exchange (nothing more than reactionary self-righteousness live...

... in early Soviet propaganda, we should not be too surprised by this invocation of a bib- lical topos in the crucible of atheism. In both scenes of creation that which the omnipotent authority (God; Lenin) is creating (Adam; Usachevka) is pictured as having already been created. Like God, however...