Libro Under the Spell of Freedom: Theory of Religion After Hegel and Nietzsche De Joas, Hans

portada Under the Spell of Freedom: Theory of Religion After Hegel and Nietzsche

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Hans Joas

Editorial

Oxford University Press, USA

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

504

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

22.6 x 14.2 x 4.1 cm

Peso

0.84 kg.

ISBN13

9780197642153

Categorías

Teoría social
Psicología
Filosofía de la religión

Under the Spell of Freedom: Theory of Religion After Hegel and Nietzsche

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Reseña del libro "Under the Spell of Freedom: Theory of Religion After Hegel and Nietzsche"

How do the history of religion and the history of political freedom relate to each other? The variety of views on this subject in philosophy, the humanities and social sciences, and the public is broad and confusing. But the grandiose synthesis in which Hegel brought together Christianity and political freedom is still an enormous source of orientation for many-despite or even because of the influential provocations of Friedrich Nietzsche. As Hans Joas shows in Under the Spell of Freedom, a different view has developed in the religious thinking of the twentieth century based on a conception of history that is more open to the future and on a concept of freedom that is richer than that of Hegel. Using sixteen selected thinkers, Joas deconstructs the grand Hegelian narrative of human history as the self-realization of the idea of freedom, setting as a counterpart the sketches of a theory of the emergence of moral universalism. Further, taking the classical views of Hegel and his emphasis on the role of Protestant Christianity and the extremely negative views about Christianity in the work of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, Joas elaborates on this new understanding of religion and freedom, which avoids both Eurocentrism and an intellectualist view of religious faith and practice. The result is a forceful plea for a global history of moral universalism. Under the Spell of Freedom is an important step in this direction.