Preface to the American Edition Part I Dispositions 1. Around the Year Zero 2. Faith and Code 3. Positions I: Jesus and His Fathers 4. Positions II: Mary and the Trinity 5. From the Jewish Birth Family to the Christian Destination Family 6. The Man Joseph and Monotheistic Religion 7. The Inimitable Model 8. Combinatorics I: The Mother-Son Axis 9. Combinatorics II: The Sacred Marriage 10. Combinatorics III: The Father-Son Axis 11. The Dissolution of Distinctions Part II Theories 12. The Family Novel of Religions 13. Beyond Gender 14. The Question of Power Part III Consequences 15. Christianity: On the Road to Becoming the Religion of the Empire 16. The Church's Marriage Policy in the Middle Ages 17. The Protestant Holy Family 18. The Return of Joseph 19. Joseph, Abelard, Saint-Preux 20. Holy Family, Bourgeois Family 21. Christ and Oedipus: Freud's Coup 22. Remnant Families in the Welfare State 23. Theology and Family in George Lucas's Star Wars Notes Index
Ranging over two millennia of history and culture, Koschorke considers such thinkers as Freud, Weber, Rousseau, and Kleist in an exploration that illuminates issues of historical, religious, artistic, psychological, and cultural importance.
Albrecht Koschorke is professor of German at the University of Konstanz and is a project director at the Research Center for Literary Studies in Berlin. He has published four previous books in German, including Die Geschichte des Horizonts and Korperstrome und Schriftverkehr.
An interesting dance of signs going back through the epochs Die Zeit This book demands a careful read. -- Linda J. Strozdas Family Ministry Theologians can find some help in this book for the history and the cannons of their on discipline. -- Mary Ann Donovan Theological Studies
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