Moderne Gnosis, jenseits von Christen- wie Judentum: Anmerkungen zu und Erinnerungen an Jacob Taubes, aus Anlass des von Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink und Martin Treml herausgegebenen Aufsatzbandes "Apokalypse und Politik"
This essay focusses on contextualizing several of the contributions gathered in what is probably the latest anthology dedicated to Jacob Taubes. The author does question the criteria for choosing the contributions since several works have been left out and are not even mentioned in the bibliography...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | German |
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Brill
[2019]
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Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte
Year: 2019, Volume: 71, Issue: 3, Pages: 223-237 |
| Review of: | Apokalypse und Politik (Paderborn : Wilhelm Fink, 2017) (Faber, Richard)
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| IxTheo Classification: | BF Gnosticism TK Recent history |
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| Summary: | This essay focusses on contextualizing several of the contributions gathered in what is probably the latest anthology dedicated to Jacob Taubes. The author does question the criteria for choosing the contributions since several works have been left out and are not even mentioned in the bibliography and suggests that the title “Gnosis and politics” would be a much better fijit for the anthology instead of the chosen “Apocalypse and politics”, especially with regard to Paulinism as an undoubtedly central concept of Taubes’ work. Not least because the author places Taubes beyond Judaism as well as Christianity, as argued in one of the main theses of this essay: Taubes never let himself be caged in any “orthodoxy”; instead he emphatically embraced being an “heretic” or “gnostic” – for Eric Voegelin and the like-minded the devil incarnate. The author does understand their position, e.g. from a perspective of Carl Schmitt, but cautions about such a demonization, last but not least in regards to the person of the doubtlessly difffijicult intellectual himself: Taubes’ passionate Anti-Nietzscheanism, the negative counterpart to his Propaulinism is based on personally sufffered contemporary history: the inescapable experience of the Shoah. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0739 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700739-07103002 |