No spiritual investment in the world: gnosticism and postwar German philosophy

"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-neg...

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Main Author: Styfhals, Willem 1988- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca ; London Cornell University Press [2019]
Series:Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:"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'"--
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:9781501731013
9781501731020
DOI:10.7591/9781501731013