Between cosmology and false consciousness. Regarding Raimundo Cuesta's book Suspicious Truths

Abstract

In this article we develop a critical review on Raimundo Cuesta's recent work: Verdades sospechosas. Religión, historia y capitalismo; we provide an account of its content by noting some of its main ideas and pointing out some points of debate or issues that in our opinion could have been addressed taking into account other considerations. This is an essay of cultural anthropology focused on the critique of religion through the thought of seven great masters: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, E. Bloch, Durkheim, Weber and Benjamin; masters whose breadth and intensity of thought constitute the raw material for Raimundo Cuesta to construct his essay by providing a whole arsenal of his own ideas, nuances, conceptualizations and topics of debate that are of great interest both for what they mean in the history of contemporary thought and for their implications in today's world. The book really revolves around the ideas of personal and collective emancipation, overcoming the bewilderment of false consciences. It is the heir to the traditions and cultural contributions that it studies and shows that our societies continue to be formidable factories of suspicious truths that we must remain on guard against to prevent becoming chained.