...Willem Styfhals The story of the renowned scholar of Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem and his disloyal student Jacob Taubes was one of continuing intellectual quarrel and personal enmity. Their intellectual disagreements centered on Jewish messianism, but the significance of this issue for Taubes’s...

...Bruce Rosenstock Shortly before his death, Jacob Taubes described his intellectual engagement with Carl Schmitt, beginning in the early 1950s, as one of “liebender Streit” (loving strife). This article explicates Taubes's “loving strife” with Schmitt through the lens of what Taubes called...

...Nitzan Lebovic This article addresses the strange reappearance of Carl Schmitt in the context of German Jewish thought after 1940. The focus is on the role political theology played in the work of Martin Buber, Hugo Bergman, and Jacob Taubes, three men who met in Jerusalem during the late 1940s...

...Benjamin Lazier This essay traces the origins of the contemporary interest in “political theology” and focuses on the work of Leo Strauss, Gershom Scholem, and Jacob Taubes in particular. They offer three competing instrumentalizations of the concept; they alert us to a dimension of the problem...

... Henrich, and Jacob Taubes. A few years later Luhmann joined the group. According to Karl Markus Michel, the respon- sible editor, the series in question should be “well made” but also “inexpensive.” It should be distinguishable from the “ubiquitous paperbacks” but stand out from “traditional...

... reasons, and in the summer of 1939 they traveled to France, stopping in Zürich as the guests of the chief rabbi there, Zvi Taubes, Jacob Taubes’s father. Jacob Taubes, who spent time with Goldberg during his stay in Zürich (he was sixteen years old at the time), later sought to bring Goldberg...

.... Jacob Taubes, vol. 1 of Der Fürst dieser Welt: Carl Schmitt und die Fol- gen (Paderborn: Schöningh, 1983), 19–23, quoted in M. Dahlheimer, Carl Schmitt und der deutsche Katholizismus, 1888–1936 (Paderborn: Schönigh, 1998), 208–9. 10 Political Theology versus Theological Politics theology...

... own article addresses the strange reappearance of Schmitt in the context of German-Jewish thought after 1940. The focus is on political theol- ogy’s role in the work of Martin Buber, Hugo Bergmann, and Jacob Taubes, three men who met in Jerusalem during the late 1940s and early 1950s...

..., ed. Jacob Taubes (Munich: Fink, 1983). On Blumen- berg’s claims and their curious reliance on and reworking of Adolf von Harnack’s notion of gnosti- cism see a most insightful essay by Christoph Schmidt, “Unde Malum? Zu einer kritischen Revi- sion von Hans Blumenbergs Legitimität der Neuzeit...

... . Blumenberg Hans Taubes Jacob . 2013 . Briefwechsel, 1961–1981, und weitere Materialien . Berlin : Suhrkamp . Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels , ed. 2015 . Buch und Buchhandel in Zahlen 2015 . Frankfurt am Main : Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels . Felsch Philipp...

... and implic- itly alluded to many others. Sometimes approvingly, often critically, never neutrally. In his book The Time That Remains Giorgio Agamben points out the strategic function of quotation for Benjamin. Agamben repeats in his book on Paul not only the gesture and style of Jacob Taubes’s...

... . Blumenberg Hans Taubes Jacob . 2013 . Briefwechsel, 1961–1981, und weitere Materialen , edited by Kopp-Oberstebrink Herbert Treml Martin . Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp . Brient Elizabeth . 2000 . “Hans Blumenberg and Hannah Arendt on the ‘Unworldly Worldliness’ of the Modern...

... and their historical and discursive context, which may be expressed by an indicative fact: in the massive and highly useful Ben- jamin Handbook, edited by Burkhard Lindner, no member of contemporary theology is even mentioned.6 Among the numerous if not countless read- ers of Benjamin, only Jacob Taubes...

.... 31. This description is from the editorial material in Jacob Taubes, The Political Theology of Paul, trans. Dana Hollander (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004), 139. Taubes wants to develop, in opposition to Schmitt, a political theology of covenant putatively more faithful...

..., and Jacob Taubes. To understand the ambiguities and paradoxes implied in the category today, it is essential to take these earlier discourses into account, namely, the substantial critique of the concept of secularization in Blumen- berg’s magisterial work The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, which...

... Konstitution politischer Polytheologie .” In vol. 1 of Religionstheorie und politische Theologie , edited by Taubes Jacob , 85 – 99 . Munich : Fink , 1983 . Flood Christopher G. Political Myth: A Theoretical Introduction . New York : Garland , 1996 . Freud Sigmund . Moses...

... Theologie (1922, 1970), and Jacob Taubes, Die politische Theologie des Paulus (1993), although my essay is less interested in the politics of the state than in a politics of daily life. My refl ections are also inspired by the notion and critique of political theology as explored, for example...

... the legible politics of pictorial rupture and the immediate psycho- logical charge that violent disjunction begets, how do we interpret the aesthetic politics of Heartfi eld’s very next image for the AIZ, just fi ve months after his 1929 self-portrait? Wer Bürgerblätter liest wird blind und taub...

... Benjamin, Leo Strauss, and Jacob Taubes have all been published, as have those with Scholem’s students Morton Smith and Joseph Weiss. On Weiss’s biography and on Scholem’s relationship with him, see in particular Katz, “Joseph G. Weiss” ; Wilensky, “Joseph Weiss” ; Zadoff, “Awl and the Sack” ; Zadoff...

..., “Etwas fehlt . . . Über die Widersprüche der utopischen Sehnsucht,” in Taub and Wieser, Gespräche mit Ernst Bloch, 58–77. 76  Cloudcuckooland aged core players, volatility of negotiations with their star player, etc.) as a basis for projection. I rearrange given components of the situation...