Finalist for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Religion category
In this series of essays, Thomas J. J. Altizer explores the Christian epic as the site of modern revolutionary apocalyptic reenactments and renewals of the original apocalypse enacted by Jesus Christ and primitive Christianity. Beginning with the pivotal seventeenth-century figures Milton and Spinoza, Altizer analyzes the apocalyptic visions of key figures of modernity, including Blake, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Joyce, often juxtaposing them to surprising and illuminating effect. These revolutionary moments stand in opposition to what Altizer calls the pathological modern counterrevolution that dominates the world today, which is an effect of a new postmodernity and of a progressive dissolution of historical consciousness. Through his analysis of modern apocalyptic moments and thinkers, this book becomes an elegant and accessible guide to Altizer’s own apocalyptic vision and his ultimate project of the total and comprehensive reconstruction of theology.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Satan and Apocalypse: A Renewal of Milton and Spinoza
2. The Transfi guration of Christianity
3. The Absolute Heterodoxy of William Blake
4. Nietzsche and Apocalypse
5. America and the Death of God
6. Joyce and the Christian Epic Tradition
7. Revolutionary Apocalypse
8. Political Theology: An Apology
Epilogue
Index
Über den Autor
Thomas J. J. Altizer is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. His many books include
The Call to Radical Theology (edited by Lissa Mc Cullough);
Living the Death of God: A Theological Memoir;
Godhead and the Nothing;
The Contemporary Jesus; and
History as Apocalypse, all published by SUNY Press.
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