{"product_id":"critique-of-earth-arend-theodor-van-leeuwen-9780227170403","title":"Critique of Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe second series of van Leeuwen's Gifford Lectures examining the young Karl Marx's developing thought.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the second series of van Leeuwen's Gifford Lectures, the author examines the 'transmutation' from the critique of heaven into the critique of earth. His thesis is that Marx's critique of religion is seen not in his opposition to 'religion', but in his ideas on political economy. This thesis is undergirded with analysis of Marx's critique of political economy from 1842 to Das Kapital. Marx's biography works itself out at three levels of critique: from religion via politics to political economy. Das Kapital sums up the whole of Marx's thought. The analysis of the 'mystical character of commodities' is both the key to the critique of Christianity, 'with its cult of abstract man', and the key to the critique of political economy, the fetishism of which 'emerges clear as the noon-day, whenever it has to do with capital'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe reception of Marx's critique in the categories, structure and method of traditional theology is not feasible; a transformation of theology is necessary. To put it another way, reception of Marx's critique will be both cause and symptom of a self-fulfilling theological transformation, for which this work provides a prolegomena.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Arend Theodor Van Leeuwen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0227170407\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780227170403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e James Clarke Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 6.36w x 0.97d","brand":"Arend Theodor Van Leeuwen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48807733166335,"sku":"9780227170403","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/critique-of-earth-arend-theodor-van-leeuwen-9780227170403","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}