Table of Contents
Introduction: Why Taubes? 1
Chapter 1 Yichus: Vienna, 1923-36 9
Chapter 2 Coming of Age in Switzerland, 1936-47 29
Chapter 3 Intellectual Roots, Grand Themes, 1941-46 52
Chapter 4 Occidental Eschatology and Beyond, 1946-47 71
Chapter 5 New York and the Jewish Theological Seminary, 1947-49 99
Chapter 6 Jerusalem, 1949-52 144
Chapter 7 Making It? 1952-56 181
Chapter 8 Columbia Years, 1956-66: The Merchant of Ideas and the Invention of Religious Studies 236
Chapter 9 Between New York and Berlin, 1961-66 264
Chapter 10 Berlin: Impresario of Theory 305
Chapter 11 The Apocalyptic Moment 336
Chapter 12 Deradicalization and Crisis, 1969-75 355
Chapter 13 A Wandering Jew: Berlin-Jerusalem-Paris, 1976-81 396
Chapter 14 "Ach, ja, Taubes …": A Character Sketch 445
Chapter 15 Schmitt and Political Theology Revisited, 1982-86 453
Chapter 16 Final Act, 1986-87 480
Chapter 17 The Afterlives of Jacob Taubes 497
Conclusion 520
Acknowledgments 525
Abbreviations 531
Notes 533
Primary Sources 613
Index 619