ISBN:
9780691231600
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (600 p.)
,
17 b/w illus
Year of publication:
2022
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Muller, Jerry Z., 1954 - Professor of apocalypse
Keywords:
Jewish philosophers Biography
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Jewish philosophers Biography
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Philosophy History 20th century
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers
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Alain Badiou
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Antithesis
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Appeasement
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Aptitude
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Awareness
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Baal Shem Tov
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Biblical canon
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Boarding school
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Calvinism
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Carl Schmitt
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Catechism
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Cheese sandwich
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Christianity
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Consciousness
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Controversy
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Correspondent
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Cosmopolitanism
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Critique
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Department store
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Dieter Henrich
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Dissident
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Ernst Bloch
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Fatah
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Faust
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First language
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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German resistance to Nazism
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Giorgio Agamben
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Gnosticism
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Golden calf
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Biografie
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Taubes, Jacob 1923-1987
Abstract:
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
Note:
In English
DOI:
10.1515/9780691231600
URL:
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