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Postreligious Aesthetics and Critical Theory
In this essay I raise the problem of how Critical Theory can deal with the antimundane. To do so, in part one, I discuss the theological aesthetics of the Swiss German theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar and suggest that, despite its confessional and hieratic features, it can be read as an entry into a postreligious aesthetics.
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Publication title
in Critical Theory after Habermas: Encounters and DeparturesEditors
Dieter Freundlieb, Wayne Hudson, John RundellPagination
133-154ISBN
9004137416Department/School
School of HumanitiesPublisher
BrillPlace of publication
LeidenExtent
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