Malte reviewed Religion of the Future by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Review of 'Religion of the Future' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
The first couple of chapters still represent some of the best attempts at articulating the liveliness that comes from taking this fleshy, mortal world as the point of reference for all my hopes, desires and longings. There's a real chance of coming alive when relating to my own mortality, the insatiableness of my desires and the groundless of my being, like Mangabeira Unger wonderfully describes it.
These topics are the main take-aways from this book. The chapters on the three world-religions are interesting enough, esp. the one on the semitic religions.
Unfortunately, the rest of the book repeats itself endlessly. It gets very frustrating, seeing as the book is very long. You get the feeling that the editor was too polite to ask the author to cut half of the book or more (which would have made it condensed and more lively). So, I started out absolutely energetic in this …
The first couple of chapters still represent some of the best attempts at articulating the liveliness that comes from taking this fleshy, mortal world as the point of reference for all my hopes, desires and longings. There's a real chance of coming alive when relating to my own mortality, the insatiableness of my desires and the groundless of my being, like Mangabeira Unger wonderfully describes it.
These topics are the main take-aways from this book. The chapters on the three world-religions are interesting enough, esp. the one on the semitic religions.
Unfortunately, the rest of the book repeats itself endlessly. It gets very frustrating, seeing as the book is very long. You get the feeling that the editor was too polite to ask the author to cut half of the book or more (which would have made it condensed and more lively). So, I started out absolutely energetic in this book and ended extremely frustrated, even angered at the author. There is something neurotic or just untrustworthy about someone that writes so eloquently about confronting the fact, that you only live one, short life, and the time is now to live, and then proceeds to repeat themselves for 500 pages.