
Jacob Taubes
Sovereignty and Messianic Time
Elettra Stimilli(Author)
Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 19. August 2027
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-350-10479-2 (ISBN)
Description
Jacob Taubes (1923-87) was one of the most important Jewish thinkers of the 20th-century, but until recently there has been little academic writing about him. Elettra Stimilli presents the first English translation of Taubes' work, which has proved so essential to philosophical and theological studies. Stimilli's work will hold considerable interest for students and scholars specialising in Saint Paul's writings; Taubes brilliantly deconstructed these texts to reveal their more subversive and heterodox implications and through his interlocutions with Carl Schmitt, identified the apostle as a heretical Jew, who decided to follow Jesus. Such original thought ushered in a new realm of political theology that has been crucial to thinkers who work with Pauline thought today, such as Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou. Stimilli's work has grown increasingly significant and her incisive treatment of Taubes' writings will bring him to the attention of an even wider audience.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-10479-2 (9781350104792)
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Elettra Stimilli is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She is the author of Jacob Taubes (2004) and The Debt of the Living (2017) and the co-editor, with Dario Gentili and Glenda Garelli, of Italian Critical Thought (2018).
Content
Introduction
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 of Names
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 of Names