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Large, William 
ORCID: 0000-0003-0447-5364
(2009)
The Messianic Idea, the Time of Capital and the Everyday.
Journal for Cultural Research, 13 (3-4).
pp. 267-279.
doi:10.1080/14797580903101177
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Abstract
Why should anyone bother with religious ideas? Are they not the most outmoded, reactionary and useless forms of expression? Not if they make us see reality in a different way. What we are faced with in these dangerous times is a complete and total global catastrophe. Capitalism turns away from this disaster (of which it is the cause) by promising an endless future of the same. Only a time which breaks with this time can truly prevent it from happening. We are faced with three futures: the future of the disaster, which is the reality of capitalism; the future of progress, which is the fantasy of capital; and that future which interrupts this fatal double of the real and the fantastical. Such a future is the messianic. Messianism should be clearly distinguished from any kind of millenarianism. It does not seek the “end of times”, a world beyond or behind the world, but the transformation of the present by the hidden possibilities of the everyday.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Article Type: | Article |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | REF2014 Submission |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Divisions: | Schools and Research Institutes > School of Creative Arts |
| Research Priority Areas: | Culture, Continuity, and Transformation |
| Depositing User: | Anne Pengelly |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Sep 2015 14:10 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Aug 2023 08:56 |
| URI: | https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/2597 |
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