@book{0f3a779985bb43fb913390505bca6748,
title = "Contesting Modernity in the German Secularization Debate: Karl L{\"o}with, Hans Blumenberg and Carl Schmitt in Polemical Contexts",
abstract = "In Contesting Modernity in the German Secularization Debate, Sjoerd Griffioen investigates the polemics between Karl L{\"o}with, Hans Blumenberg and Carl Schmitt on the role of religion in modernity. He analyzes their contribution to the development of the broader German secularization debate between the 1950{\textquoteright}s and 1980{\textquoteright}s. As this development is traced, special attention is paid to how after 1968 this debate increasingly centered on Schmitt{\textquoteright}s notion of political theology and its appropriation by the Left. This is evinced in the work of Jacob Taubes, who is opposed by Odo Marquard, assuming a Blumenbergian-secularist position in this new political landscape. Griffioen concludes with a methodological reflection on the value of {\textquoteleft}Geistesgeschichte{\textquoteright} and by identifying parallels with the contemporary discourse of postsecularism. ",
keywords = "Karl L{\"o}with, Carl Schmitt, Hans Blumenberg, Jacob Taubes, Odo Marquard, Secularization, Modernity, Progress, Christianity, Gnosticism, Vergangenheitsbew{\"a}ltigung, Geistesgeschichte, Political theology, Eschatology",
author = "Sjoerd Griffioen",
note = "Sjoerd Griffioen, Ph.D. (1987), is a lecturer in Philosophy at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the Netherlands. ",
year = "2022",
month = jan,
day = "20",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-90-04-33142-6 ",
series = "Brill's Studies in Intellectual History",
publisher = "Brill",
}