The Religion of the Future. Roberto Mangabeira Unger

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       For Tamara

      “I can think of no greater happiness than to be with you all the time, endlessly …, and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you, and you would hide your face in me …”

      —Franz Kafka, The Castle

      This paperback edition first published by Verso 2016

      First published by Harvard University Press 2014

      © 2014 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

      © Robert Mangabeira Unger 2016

      All rights reserved

      The moral rights of the authors have been asserted

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      ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-730-1 (PB)

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      Contents

       1.Beyond Wishful Thinking: Life without Illusion

       Death

       Groundlessness

       Insatiability

       Belittlement

       Religion and the flaws in human life

       The common element in past religious revolution

       What religion is, or has been

       2.Overcoming the World

       Central idea, historical presence, and metaphysical vision

       Incitements to overcoming the world

       Serenity and benevolence

       Criticism: betrayal of the past

       Criticism: the school of experience

       Criticism: betrayal of the future

       3.Humanizing the World

       Central idea, historical presence, and metaphysical vision

       Making meaning in a meaningless world

       Our situation and our task

       The ennoblement of our relations to one another

       Criticism: betrayal of the past

       Criticism: the school of experience

       Criticism: betrayal of the future

       4.Struggling with the World

       Central idea, spoken in sacred and profane voice

       Metaphysical vision

       Conception of the self

       Only one regime

       Spirit and structure

       Self and others

       Twin orthodoxies suppressed

       Criticism: strength and weakness of the struggle with the world

       Criticism: estrangement from life in the present

       5.Religious Revolution Now: Its Occasions and Instruments

       Reasons for religious revolution

       The unique position of the struggle with the world

       Resolving the ambivalence of the higher religions to the transformation of the world

       Radicalizing the significance of the struggle with the world for our ideas and institutions

       Achieving a greater life, without Prometheanism

       Recognizing the defects in human existence

       Occasions and sources of religious revolution

       In what sense a religious revolution

       The practice of religious revolution

       A tragic contradiction in the history of religion

       Philosophy and religion

       Direction and indirections of the religion of the future

       Christianity as the religion of the future?

       6.Deep Freedom: The Politics of the Religion of the Future

       Political theology without God

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