132 TEASER | Marxism and Religion, Part II: The Gospel According to Terry Eagleton
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The episode discusses Terry Eagleton’s defense of religion and its implications for left-wing political projects.
In this episode, we discuss Terry Eagleton’s defense of religion. We focus on his diagnoses of the Enlightenment, modernism, and post-modernism as different kinds of post-religious movements. Post-modernism is the only “truly atheist” one, which is one reason it got along with capitalism so well. We also talk a lot about social and spiritual meaning and their importance to Left wing political projects. This is just a short teaser of the full episode. To hear the rest, please subscribe to us o...
People in this episode
Hosts: Lillian Cicerchia, Owen Glyn-Williams, Gil Morejón, William Paris
Topics covered
- Marxism
- Religion
- Enlightenment
- Modernism
- Post-modernism
- Left wing politics
- Social meaning
Keywords
- Terry Eagleton
- Marxism
- Religion
- Enlightenment
- Post-modernism
- Left politics
- Social meaning
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Marxism and Religion, The Gospel According to Terry Eagleton
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