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<p>Roland Boer, <i>University of Newcastle, Australia</i></p>
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<p><i>In the Vale of Tears</i> brings to a culmination the
project for a renewed and enlivened debate over the
interaction between Marxism and religion. It does so by
offering the author's own response to that tradition. It
simultaneously draws upon the rich insights of a
significant number of Western Marxists and strikes out on
its own. Thus, it argues for the crucial role of political
myth on the Left; explores the political ambivalence at
the heart of Christianity; challenges the bent among many
on the Left to favour the unexpected rupture of kairós as
a key to revolution; is highly suspicious of the
ideological and class alignments of ethics; offers a
thorough reassessment of the role of fetishism in the
Marxist tradition; and broaches the question of death,
unavoidable for any Marxist engagement with religion.
While the book is the conclusion to the five-volume
series, <i>The Criticism of Heaven and Earth</i>, it also
stands alone as a distinct intervention in some burning
issues of our time.</p>
<p>Winner of the 2014 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial
Prize.</p>
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