396 • Index
Hechter, Michael, 230
Hegel, G. W. F., 106
attempt to restore the ontological
proof, 69
the “beautiful soul,” 172
Christianity as the absolute religion,
83
critical theorists’ on, 79
dialectical methodology of
determinate negation, 130
idealistic reconciliation between the
sacred and the profane, 62
instrumental theodicy, 67
notion of the absolute Spirit, 72, 80
The Phenomenology of Spirit, 19
Phenomenology of the Spirit, 78
philosophy of religion, 62
positive and negative dialectics, 65,
69, 70, 132
story of the Master and Slave, 19
Heidegger, Martin, 75, 86
Heinrich, Michael, 52
hell
Dante’s, 35
decline in the belief, 182
dialectical image of modern capitalist
society as, 84
and positivism, 73–74
Hellenism, 241
“heroic masculinity,” 333
Hezbollah, 300
hijab, 311
Hinduism, 294
Hirschman, Albert O., 226
historical materialism, 77
radicalization, 78
and theology, 2
Hitler, Adolf, 72, 88, 91, 134, 339
Holocaust, 67, 177, 336
Holocaust altar, 70, 84
Homer
Odyssey, 35
homo economicus(economic man), 124
hope, 333
Hoplites, 293
Horkheimer, Max, 2, 4, 61, 65, 126
on absence of faith in God, 106
on “consolation,” 174
critical theory of religion, 83, 149–50,
333
criticism of ideological function of
religion, 173
criticism of the work of Marx and
Freud, 99
dialectical understanding of reason,
169
directorship of the Frankfurt Institute
for Social Research, 129
doctrine of original or hereditary sin,
147
Dusk, 66
Eclipse of Reason, 68
on energy of longing, 108
on essential task of the bourgeois
Enlightenment, 127
on freedom of will, 146–47
on human social praxis, 142–43
insight related to the truth, 110
on instrumental reasoning, 157,
176–77
intellect as purpose-conditioned,
108–9
interpretation of Weber ’s treatment of
rationality, 158–59
legacy of religion to Western culture,
175
longing for light, 114
longing for the totally other, 79–80,
109, 133–34
Marxism as secularized Messianism,
111–12
and Marx’s thesis on the criticism of
religion, 151
materialistic critical theory of religion,
82, 133
on morality, 145–46
need for a Marxist revolution, 137
negative notion of the truth, 111, 112
negative theology, 143–45
notion of dialectic, 79
perspective on religion rooted in
Marxian tradition, 173
on positivism, 71–72, 151–52, 167–72
on positivism and heaven and hell,
73–74
on positivism and Heidegger, 75–76
on positivism and mythology, 74
on positivism and religion, 76
on positivism and science, 75
on positivism and totalitarianism, 72
on positivism as mortal enemy of the
truth, 107
problem of turning critical theory into
a sociology, 127
on progressive type of man versus
retrogressive one, 99
Psalm 91, 115–20
on radical enlightenment, 78
radicalization of Kant’s critique of
reason, 141
relativization, 107–8
on religion, 173–77