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By Jacob Taubes

ISBN-10: 0804733457

ISBN-13: 9780804733458

This hugely unique interpretation of Paul by way of the Jewish thinker of faith Jacob Taubes was once awarded in a few lectures held in Heidelberg towards the tip of his existence, and used to be seemed through him as his non secular testament.” Taubes engages with vintage Paul commentators, together with Karl Barth, but additionally situates the Pauline textual content within the context of Freud, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Adorno, Scholem, and Rosenzweig. In his precise argument for the apocalyptic-revolutionary strength of Romans, Taubes additionally takes factor with the political theology” complicated via the conservative Catholic jurist Carl Schmitt. Taubes’s examining has been an important for a couple of interpretations of political theology and of Paul—including these of Jan Assmann and Giorgio Agamben—and it belongs to a wave of clean concerns of Paul’s legacy (Boyarin, Lyotard, Badiou, Zîzêk). eventually, Taubes’s far-ranging lectures offer very important insights into the singular reports and perspectives of this unconventional Jewish highbrow residing in post-Holocaust Germany.

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3 That Jesus Christ's father cannot be identical to the creator coeli et terrae. The Old Testament is perfectly all right and in good order [vollkommen in Ordnung], that is, literally: it begins with the creation of this world by the creator-and just look at it, what a miserable creatio it is, in which there are so many mosquitoes (I am quoting Marcion). But Jesus Christ's father is not at all identical with him. Rather, he is the alien God, deus alienus, the other God. You can read up on the entire vocabulary in Harnack.

Just think of 1848. The political potential ofKierkegaard had long been underestimated. The first to point it out was Karl Lowith, when he underscored the sentence: There are no longer rulers, no kings who cari still keep a rein on the masses, the rabble; there remains only the image of the martyr. 29 What is this but a political statement! T he rabble in 1848 can no longer be held in check by means of figures of legitimacy, a king, a Kaiser, a general, but only by a martyr, because it has gotten out of hand.

Neither with the ascendancies of German Idealis~ nor with the depths, the path inward, Navalis, and so on. You can do It however you want but there it ends: If God is God, then he can't be coaxed out of<>_~r soul. pri~ri. he other side; then we see, when our eyes are pierced open. Otherwise we see nothing. Otherwise we ascend, w~ strive until the day after tomorrow. Adorno can't let go. He's an aesthete, after all. Music then has a soteriological role. Neither Benjamin nor Barth could go in for such naive notions.

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