At Liam’s request, the table of contents for Criticism of Earth:
Preface 5
Introduction 12
Synopsis 16
The terrain of struggle: theology and the Bible 26
Conclusion 47
Chapter One: The Subterranean Bible 53
Outwitting the Censor 56
Against the Ruling Class 65
Clergy as part of a Corrupt Ruling Class 73
Economic Allusions 77
Against Other Opponents 84
Appropriation and Ambivalence 89
Conclusion 95
Chapter Two: The Leading Article: Theology, Philosophy and Science 96
Theology and Scientific Research 97
Theology and Philosophy 101
Church and State 110
Fetishism and Idolatry 116
Conclusion 121
Chapter Three: Against the Theological Hegelians I: Bruno Bauer 122
The Book of Isaiah (with Herr Licentiate Bauer) 125
‘My Friend for Many Years Standing …’ 139
The Jewish Question 152
Holy Families 167
Conclusion 181
Chapter Four: Against the Theological Hegelians II: Max Stirner and the Lever of History 190
Stirner’s Ego, or, the Lever of History 194
The engine room of historical materialism 200
Conclusion 218
Chapter Five: Against the Theological Hegelians III: Ludwig Feuerbach’s Inversion 222
Inversion 223
Idealism and Theology 231
The Theological Springboard 236
Irreligious Criticism, or, Completing the Criticism of Religion 240
The New Luther 255
Conclusion 263
Chapter Six: Hegel, Theology and the Secular State 269
The Formal Theologian 270
The Theological State 275
The Death of Theology? 281
The Paradox of the Secular State 289
Conclusion 304
Chapter Seven: Idols, Fetishes and Graven Images 308
History of Religions 310
Idolatry 322
Economy 332
Alienation and Labour 332
Money and Christology 339
Commodities and Capital 343
Conclusion 355
Chapter Eight: Of Flowers and Chains: The Ambivalence of Theology 361
Theological Tension and the Gospel of John 363
The Bible and Class Conflict 382
The Two Sides of Opium 389
Marx’s Demurrer: On Grace 401
Chapter Nine: Engels’s Biblical Temptations 407
Engels’s Self-Exorcism 408
The Challenge of Contradictions 425
Schelling, the Philosopher in Christ 452
Conclusion: On the Loss of Faith 470
Chapter Ten: Revelation and Revolution 475
The Two Minds of Friedrich Engels 477
Doctrinaire Atheism 479
Revolutionary versus reactionary Christianity 485
The Ambivalent Calvinism of F.W. Krummacher 489
A Soft Spot for Apocalyptic 494
On Thomas Müntzer and the Peasants 507
Early Christianity 517
Conclusion 531
Conclusion 533
References 563
The manuscript is just shy of 160,000 words, so it should come out, even with Brill/Haymarket’s big pages, at about 450 pages. Due out October 2011.
