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)
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Language:English
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Published: Princeton Princeton University Press [2022]
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Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Taubes, Jacob 1923-1987
Further subjects:B Jewish philosophers (Germany) Biography
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B Taubes, Jacob
B Biography
B Philosophy History 20th century
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520 |a 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 
520 |a "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. Muller argues, nonetheless, that this man's troubled and troubling life merits scrutiny-not because he was a world-class, original thinker, but because he was such an inescapable and significant presence in the lives of intellectuals and academics on three continents. In this book, Muller tells the story of a man who exerted influence on postwar intellectual life in Europe and America less through his written work than through personal contact and conversation. Taubes had enormous vitality and appetite for life. A charismatic speaker and gifted polemicist, he was an inveterate social networker who seemed to know everybody and loved to make connections between people. He acted as a merchant of ideas, finding ideas in one national, religious, or disciplinary context and retailing them in another. And as a person, he left no one indifferent. Taubes brought joy and mirth into the lives of some, but he thrived on disorder and created disorder around him, sometimes at great personal cost to those in his circle. His erotic activities mirrored his championing of doctrines and movements that transgressed normative boundaries. Some revered him as a genius; others dismissed him as a charlatan. Muller does not take sides, finding plausible grounds in the historical record for all of these judgments. In recounting Taubes's life, Muller illuminates much about postwar intellectual life in America, Germany, and Israel"-- 
520 |a "The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life scion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923-1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar Vienna to Zurich, Israel, and Cold War Berlin. Regarded by some as a genius, by others as a charlatan, Taubes moved among yeshivas, monasteries, and leading academic institutions on three continents. He wandered between Judaism and Christianity, left and right, piety and transgression. Along the way, he interacted with many of the leading minds of the age, from Leo Strauss and Gershom Scholem to Herbert Marcuse, Susan Sontag, and Carl Schmitt. Professor of Apocalypse is the definitive biography of this enigmatic figure and a vibrant mosaic of twentieth-century intellectual life.Jerry Muller shows how Taubes's personal tensions mirrored broader conflicts between religious belief and scholarship, allegiance to Jewish origins and the urge to escape them, tradition and radicalism, and religion and politics. He traces Taubes's emergence as a prominent interpreter of the Apostle Paul, influencing generations of scholars, and how his journey led him from crisis theology to the Frankfurt School, and from a radical Hasidic sect in Jerusalem to the center of academic debates over Gnosticism, secularization, and the revolutionary potential of apocalypticism.Professor of Apocalypse offers an unforgettable account of an electrifying world of ideas, focused on a charismatic personality who thrived on controversy and conflict"-- 
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