Buying pre-order items
Ebooks and Audiobook
You will receive an email with a download link for the ebook or audiobook on the publication date.
Payment
You will not be charged for pre-ordered books until they are available to be shipped. Pre-ordered ebooks will not be charged for until they are available for download.
Amending or cancelling your order
For orders that have not been shipped you can usually make changes to pre-orders up to 72 hours before the publishing date.
Payment for this pre-order will be taken when the item becomes available
- Delivery and returns info
-
Free CA delivery on orders $40 or over
Description
This book presents the first in-depth survey of Austrian-Jewish sociologist and philosopher Jacob Taubes (1923-87).
Born in Vienna, Taubes and his family fled to Switzerland in the 1930s to escape Nazism, and the philosopher later took up positions at schools in the US and in Berlin. Paradoxically, however, Taubes shared correspondence with Carl Schmitt, the infamous "crown jurist" and legal theorist of the Nazi regime. This book unpacks these paradoxes through deep analytical observation of Schmitt and Taubes' dialogues, and shows how Taubes deconstructed St. Paul's writings to reveal their more subversive and heterodox implications. These readings, which gave rise to the school of thought we now call political theology, have also proven foundational to the thought of contemporary thinkers such as Giogio Agamben, Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou.
Stimilli's incisive treatment of Taubes finally brings him to the attention of an even wider audience. This is essential reading for anyone researching political theology, 20th-century Jewish thought and the relationship between theology and philosophy today.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Occidental Eschatology
Chapter Two: For a theological atheism
Chapter Three: Theology and Political Theory
Chapter Four: Philosophy of history between mythology and theology
Chapter Five: The messianic logic
Biographical Notes
Bibliography
Index
Index of Names
Product details
| Published | Feb 04 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 240 |
| ISBN | 9781350104785 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Series | Political Theologies |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Related Titles
