Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas

by Hent de Vries

Book Overview

Originally published in in 2004. What, at this historical moment "after Auschwitz," still remains of the questions traditionally asked by theology? What now is theology's minimal degree? This magisterial study, the first extended comparison of the writings of Theodor W. Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas, explores remnants and echoes of religious forms in these thinkers' critiques of secular reason, finding in the work of both a "theology in pianissimo"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801880173
• ISBN13: 9780801880179
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 8.9"