For millennia, messianic visions of redemption have inspired men and women to turn against unjust and oppressive orders. Yet these very same traditions are regularly decried as antecedents to the violent and authoritarian ideologies of modernity. Informed in equal parts by theology and historical theory, this book offers a provocative exploration of this double-edged legacy. Author Jayne Svenungsson rigorously pursues a middle path between utopian arrogance and an enervated postmodernism, assessing the impact of Jewish and Christian theologies of history on subsequent thinkers, and in the process identifying a web of spiritual and intellectual motifs extending from ancient Jewish prophets to contemporary radicals such as Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Zizek.
| ISBN: | 9781785331732 |
| Publication date: | 1st August 2016 |
| Author: | Jayne Svenungsson |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | Making Sense of History |
| Genres: |
Theology Historiography |
For millennia, messianic visions of redemption have inspired men and women to turn against unjust and oppressive orders. Yet these very same traditions are regularly decried as antecedents to the violent and authoritarian ideologies of modernity.
Divining History features in the following genres: Theology, Historiography
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Divining History was written by Jayne Svenungsson and published by Berghahn Books
Divining History has 240 pages
Yes it is part of Making Sense of History series
£89.10, reduced from £99.00. In Stock.