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100			_aGordon, Peter E.
245			_aMigrants in the profane : critical theory and the question of secularization
260			_bYale University Press, _c2020 _aNew Haven :
300			_axii, 196 p. ; _bill., _c23 cm
365			_b35.00 _cUSD _d77.30
490			_aFranz Rosenzweig lecture series
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aMigrants in the Profane takes its title from an intriguing remark by Theodor W. Adorno, in which he summarized the meaning of Walter Benjamin’s image of a celebrated mechanical chess-playing Turk and its hidden religious animus: “Nothing of theological content will persist without being transformed; every content will have to put itself to the test of migrating in the realm of the secular, the profane.” In this masterful book, Peter Gordon reflects on Adorno’s statement and asks an urgent question: Can religion offer any normative resources for modern political life, or does the appeal to religious concepts stand in conflict with the idea of modern politics as a domain free from religion’s influence? In answering this question, he explores the work of three of the Frankfurt School’s most esteemed thinkers: Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor W. Adorno. His illuminating analysis offers a highly original account of the intertwined histories of religion and secular modernity.
650			_aReligion and politics
650			_aSecularism
650			_aAdorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969
650			_aHorkheimer, Max, 1895-1973
650			_aBenjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
650			_aAnti - Semitism
650			_aAuthoritarianism
650			_a Capitalism
650			_aCatholicism
650			_a Critical theory
650			_aDialectical Imagination(Jay)
650			_a Fasicism
650			_aFrankfurt School
650			_a Kabbalah
650			_a Marx, Karl
650			_aMysticism
650			_aNationalism
650			_aNormativity
650			_aRedemption
650			_aTheology
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