Jacob Taubes (1923-1987) war ein einflussreicher Rabbiner und Vertreter des Judentums in der Nachkriegszeit. Sein Leben spiegelt die Konflikte zwischen jüdischem Glauben und Christentum sowie moderne Theorien wider. Die Erzählung beleuchtet seine Beziehungen zu bedeutenden Denkern wie Adorno, Scholem und Habermas.
Jacob Taubes, a prominent figure in postwar intellectual circles, navigated a life filled with vibrant connections and intellectual exchanges across continents. Despite his limited published work, his influence stemmed from personal interactions, making him a pivotal presence among scholars. Known for his charisma and a penchant for disorder, Taubes engaged deeply with ideas and challenged boundaries, earning both admiration and skepticism. Jerry Z. Muller explores Taubes's complex legacy, highlighting his impact on the cultural landscape of Europe and America during a transformative era.
An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the Present
This anthology presents a nuanced exploration of conservative social and political thought, tracing its origins to the Enlightenment. It distinguishes conservatism from orthodoxy and highlights key European and American conservative analyses from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. By examining the recurring themes and arguments within conservatism, the book reveals how the institutions conservatives aim to preserve may differ, yet certain characteristic features of conservative thought remain consistent across time and cultures.
For every quantification, there's a way of gaming it. So argues this timely manifesto against measured accountability.--Kirkus Reviews
The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual lifeScion 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.