Tearing Down the Heavens: Marx’s Critique of Religion, Atheism, and Political Economy

Mikkel Flohr

Tearing Down the Heavens: Marx’s Critique of Religion, Atheism, and Political Economy

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Abstract

Karl Marx was an atheist. He primarily engaged religion in his youth, where he was close to the Young Hegelians and partook in their critique of religion as an abstraction from and alienation of humanity’s universality and limitless potential. However, he soon grew critical of their fixation on religion and turned his attention to the social and political conditions that gave rise to religion, thus initiating a critique of the critique of religion. This sublation [aufhebung] of the Young Hegelian critique of religion relied on its conceptual resources to move beyond its inconsistencies and begin to formulate a critique of the contradictions within the world of humankind that occasioned religion. This initially took the form of a reformatory critique of political theology, which became the point of departure for his subsequent critique of political economy and may provide crucial resources for reinterpreting it.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Publikationsdato	21 jun. 2024
Udgiver	Political Theology
Antal sider	5
Status	Udgivet - 21 jun. 2024

Bibliografisk note

Mikkel Flohr works at the intersection of social and political theory, the history of ideas, and political sociology at the Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University in Denmark. He is currently researching states of exception as part of a research project funded by the Carlsberg Foundation. He is also working on a monograph on Karl Marx’s critique of political theology and co-editing a special issue of Political Theology on “Marx and Revolution.” He is a member of the Danish Society of Marxist Studies. His work has appeared in Distinktion, Theory and Event, Telos, Rethinking Marxism, and Parrhesia amongst others.”

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Karl Marx
Political economy
Religion
Atheism
Political theology
sovereignty
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
G.W.F. Hegel
Immanuel Kant
Capitalism
Capital

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