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Contents 6 Introduction 10 1 ‘A Tale of Two Churches’ 10 2 Postsecular Critiques of Progress and Secularization 12 3 A Return to the German Secularization Debate 15 Part 1 Karl Löwith and Hans Blumenberg 20 Chapter 1 The Löwith-Blumenberg Debate: From Overlapping Aversions to Fundamental Differences 22 1 Introduction 22 2 Blumenberg’s Account 26 3 Löwith’s Account 45 4 Reevaluation of Blumenberg’s Critique 54 5 Agreements and Disagreements: Suggestions from Secondary Literature 60 6 Underlying Differences in the Philosophies of Löwith and Blumenberg 64 7 Conclusion 75 Part 2 The Polemics between Carl Schmitt, Karl Löwith and Hans Blumenberg 78 Chapter 2 The Political Theology of Carl Schmitt: Secularization, Eschatology and Enmity 80 1 Introduction 80 2 Differing Interpretations of Schmitt and His Philosophical Style 82 3 The Concept of the Political and Decisionism 86 4 Political Theology and Theory of Secularization 90 5 The Theological ‘Core’ of Schmitt’s Thought? 95 6 Philosophy of History and Critique of Modernity 99 7 Eschatology: Schmitt and the Katechon 104 8 Schmitt’s Stasiology: The Identity of the Political and Theological 110 9 Conclusion 113 Chapter 3 The Löwith-Schmit

Author

Sjoerd Griffioen;

Language

EN