Political Theology of Paul
Political Theology of Paul
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Hardback
£79.00
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804733441
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 09/12/2003
Width: 15.2 cm
Height: 22.9 cm
This highly original interpretation of Paul by the Jewish philosopher of religion Jacob Taubes was presented in a number of lectures held in Heidelberg toward the end of his life, and was regarded by him as his “spiritual testament.” Taubes engages with classic Paul commentators, including Karl Barth, but also situates the Pauline text in the context of Freud, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Adorno, Scholem, and Rosenzweig. In his distinctive argument for the apocalyptic-revolutionary potential of Romans, Taubes also takes issue with the “political theology” advanced by the conservative Catholic jurist Carl Schmitt. Taubes’s reading has been crucial for a number of interpretations of political theology and of Paul—including those of Jan Assmann and Giorgio Agamben—and it belongs to a wave of fresh considerations of Paul’s legacy (Boyarin, Lyotard, Badiou, Zîzêk). Finally, Taubes’s far-ranging lectures provide important insights into the singular experiences and views of this unconventional Jewish intellectual living in post-Holocaust Germany.
@fmct:Contents @toc4:Translator's Note and Acknowledgments iii @toc4:Preface iii @toc2:Introduction 1 @toc3:1. Autobiographical Approaches to the Epistle to the Romans 000 2. Paul in Jewish Religious History: Messianic Logic 000 @toc2:Part I: Readings: Paul and Moses, the Establishment of a New People of God @toc3:1. Addresses of the Epistle to the Romans 000 Excursus: The Fate of the Jewish Christian Congregations 000 2. Nomos: Law and Justification; a Reading of Romans 811 000 3. Election and Rejection: A Reading of Romans 8:319:5 and Berakhot 32a 000 4. Pneuma: The Surpassing of Salvation History and the Overcoming of This World; a Reading of Romans 913 000 @toc2:Part II. Effects: Paul and Modernity, Transfigurations of the Messianic @toc2:1. Strangers in This World: Marcion and the Consequences 000 2. The Zealots of the Absolute and of Decision: Carl Schmitt and Karl Barth 000 3. Nihilism as World Politics and Aestheticized Messianism: Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno 000 4. Exodus from Biblical Religion: Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud 000 @toc2:Appendix A: The Jacob TaubesCarl Schmitt Story 000 @toc2:Apprendix B: Two Letters @toc2:Afterword 000 @tocca:Wolf-Daniel Hartwich, Aleida and Jan Assmann @toc3:1. Readings: The Legitimation and Formation of a New Union-Covenant [Ver-Bund] 000 2. Effects: Paul and Modernity 000 3. Political Theology 000 @toc3:Editorial Note 000 @toc4:Notes 000 @toc4:Index of Names 000 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Bible, N, T, Romans Criticism, interpretation, etc, Paul, the Apostle, Saint, Christianity and politics
"As always with Taubes, it is all very apocalyptic and reasonably brilliant or, at least, brilliantly distorted and filled with strokes of genius-the genius of a charlatan at his very, very best."-Hebraic Political Studies
