This book presents an intellectual history of Gnosticism in postwar German philosophy: Jacob Taubes, Hans Blumenberg, Eric Voegelin, Hans Jonas, Gershom Scholem, and Odo Marquard and their interpretations of the relation between Gnosticism and modernity. Recognizing Gnosticism's world-negation in modernity's rejection of spiritual meaning, they claimed to have 'no spiritual investment in the world as it is'--
- | Author: Willem Styfhals
- | Publisher: Cornell University Press And Cornell University Library
- | Publication Date: May 15, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 306 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1501730991
- | ISBN-13: 9781501730993
