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Article: Unspeakable utopia: art and the return to the theological in the Marxism of Adorno and Horkheimer.
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- CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health
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- January 1, 2004
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Introduction: The Problem of Culture
A spectre has haunted the Marxist tradition from its origins to the present day: the spectre of theology. Born of the quasi-theological ideas of German Romanticism and Idealism, Marxism has always contained traces of this parentage. Most obviously its philosophy of history resembles Hegel's account of world history as the philosophical outworking of the Christian hope for redemption. Yet even before Marx, in Hegel's supercession of the theological by philosophy, and then in the Young Hegelians' turning philosophy against theology, we can detect an hostility to the theological as mythic and ideological in its support for the ...
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