The Politics of Immortality in Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg: Theology and Resistance Between 1914-1945 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350228221)

Highlighting the central importance of theological configurations of immortality and eternal life from 1914-1945, M蚌ten Bjk explores the key writings of Franz Rosenzweig, Karl Barth and Oskar Goldberg to situate their ideas in relation to the political turmoil of the period, including the rise of social Darwinism, nationalism and fascism.

The conversations happening among Christian and Jewish theologians and philosophers on the nature of immortality and eternal life during the period constitute what Bjk calls a 'politics of immortality'. The speculative question of eternal life became a way to address the meaning of 'a good life' in a period when millions of lives were lost to war, camps and prisons. This book shows how theology was related to central political concepts and ideas of the era, revealing how the question of immortality pursued by Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg became a way to resist the reduction of life to race, blood and soil.

By situating the exact political consequences of theological and metaphysical theories of immortality and eternal life, Bjk's discussion of Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg confronts the perennial question on the relation between life and death and exposes the important connections between political theology and philosophical posthumanism.


Author: M蚌ten Bjk
ISBN-10: 1350228222
ISBN-13: 9781350228221
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 05/19/2022
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d