Professor of apocalypse: the many lives of Jacob Taubes

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Why Taubes? -- Chapter 1. Yichus: Vienna, 1923-36 -- Chapter 2. Coming of Age in Switzerland, 1936-47 -- Chapter 3. Intellectual Roots, Grand Themes, 1941-46 -- Chapter 4. Occidental Eschatology and Beyond, 1946-47 -- Chapter 5. New York and the Jewish Theological...

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Main Author: Muller, Jerry Z. 1954- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton ; Oxford Princeton University Press [2022]
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Summary:Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Why Taubes? -- Chapter 1. Yichus: Vienna, 1923-36 -- Chapter 2. Coming of Age in Switzerland, 1936-47 -- Chapter 3. Intellectual Roots, Grand Themes, 1941-46 -- Chapter 4. Occidental Eschatology and Beyond, 1946-47 -- Chapter 5. New York and the Jewish Theological Seminary, 1947-49 -- Chapter 6. Jerusalem, 1949-52 -- Chapter 7. Making It? 1952-56 -- Chapter 8. Columbia Years, 1956-66: The Merchant of Ideas and the Invention of Religious Studies -- Chapter 9. Between New York and Berlin, 1961-66 -- Chapter 10. Berlin: Impresario of Theory
Chapter 11. The Apocalyptic Moment -- Chapter 12. Deradicalization and Crisis, 1969-75 -- Chapter 13. A Wandering Jew: Berlin-Jerusalem-Paris, 1976-81 -- Chapter 14. "Ach, ja, Taubes . . .": A Character Sketch -- Chapter 15 Schmitt and Political Theology Revisited, 1982-86 -- Chapter 16. Final Act, 1986-87 -- Chapter 17. The Afterlives of Jacob Taubes -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Primary Sources -- Index
"Scion of a distinguished prewar Viennese Jewish family and son of the chief rabbi of Zurich, Jacob Taubes (1923-1987) was a philosopher of religion and scholar of Judaism and the New Testament whose career and public life intersected with that of many of the luminaries of postwar continental European and American intellectual life in the humanities. In a life that took him to teaching posts in Jerusalem, New York, Paris, and Berlin, he became a repository of knowledge about the high culture of the West, both religious and secular. Yet his scholarly output during his lifetime was minimal. At the time of his death in 1987, Taubes had not published a book since his doctoral dissertation in 1947 (a work that, by then, was long out of print and barely read). Jerry Z.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:viii, 637 pages Illustrationen
ISBN:9780691170596

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