A Mystic Conception of History: Negative Political Theology in Jacob Taubes
This article offers an account of the political theology of the German-Jewish philosopher Jacob Taubes (1923-87), whose thinking has been described as a negative political theology. This article makes an intervention into how to read Taubes well. By proposing that the most generative essay for under...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2020]
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Modern theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 36, Issue: 1, Pages: 13-28 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940
/ Taubes, Jacob 1923-1987
/ Jewish theology
/ Political theology
/ Negative theology
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BH Judaism NCD Political ethics TK Recent history |
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| Summary: | This article offers an account of the political theology of the German-Jewish philosopher Jacob Taubes (1923-87), whose thinking has been described as a negative political theology. This article makes an intervention into how to read Taubes well. By proposing that the most generative essay for understanding Taubes's thought is the 1955 essay "On The Symbolic Order of Modern Democracy," it shows both how and why one might read Taubes (with assistance from Judith Butler) as offering a negative political theology in a non-theocentric key. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-0025 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Response to Martin Kavka (2020)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Modern theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/moth.12576 |