[Marxism] HM announcement #3

[Louis Proyect]

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  Criticism of Heaven
  On Marxism and Theology
  Roland Boer

  Series:
  Historical Materialism Book Series, 18
  ISBN-13 (i):
  978 90 04 16111 5
  ISBN-10:
  90 04 16111 2

  Cover:
  Hardback
  Number of pages:
  xxiv, 472 pp.

  List price:
  € 99.00 / US$ 139.00

  This volume consists of a critical commentary on the interactions
  between Marxism and theology in the work of the major figures of
  Western Marxism. It deals with the theological writings of Ernst Bloch,
  Walter Benjamin, Louis Althusser, Henri Lefebvre, Antonio Gramsci,
  Terry Eagleton, Slavoj Žižek and Theodor Adorno. In many cases their
  theological writings are dealt with for the first time in this book. It
  is surprising how much theological material there is and how little
  commentators have dealt with it. Apart from the critical engagement
  with the way they use theology, the book also explores how their
  theological writings infiltrate and enrich their Marxist work. The book
  has three parts: Biblical Marxists (Bloch and Benjamin), Catholic
  Marxists (Althusser, Lefebvre, Gramsci and Eagleton), and the
  Protestant Turn (Žižek and Adorno).

  Roland Boer, Ph.D. (1993) in Biblical Studies, McGill University, is
  Reader in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash
  University, Melbourne. He has published extensively in biblical
  studies, Marxism, postcolonism, cultural studies, literary theory and
  political theory, including Marxist Criticism of the Bible (Continuum
  2003).