Research Catalog

Title

To Carl Schmitt : letters and reflections / Jacob Taubes ; translated by Keith Tribe ; with an introduction by Mike Grimshaw.

Author

Taubes, Jacob.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, c2013.

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Description

xliii, 69 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"A philosopher, rabbi, religious historian, and Gnostic, Jacob Taubes was for many years a correspondent and interlocutor of Carl Schmitt (1888-1985), a German jurist, philosopher, political theorist, law professor--and self-professed Nazi. Despite their unlikely association, Taubes and Schmitt shared an abiding interest in the fundamental problems of political theology, believing the great challenges of modern political theory were ancient in pedigree and, in many cases, anticipated the works of Judeo-Christian eschatologists. In this collection of Taubes's writings on Schmitt, the two intellectuals work through ideas of the apocalypse and other central concepts of political theology. Taubes acknowledges Schmitt's reservations about the weakness of liberal democracy yet distances himself from his prescription to rectify it, arguing the apocalyptic worldview requires less of a rigid hierarchical social ordering than a community committed to the importance of decision making. In these writings, a sharper and more nuanced portrait of Schmitt's thought emerges, as well as a more complicated understanding of Taubes, who has shaped the work of Giorgio Agamben, Peter Sloterdijk, and other major twentieth-century theorists."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Insurrections: critical studies in religion, politics, and culture

Uniform Title

• Ad Carl Schmitt. English
• University press scholarship online.
• Insurrections

Alternative Title

Ad Carl Schmitt.

Subject

• Taubes, Jacob > Correspondence
• Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985 > Correspondence
• Political scientists > Germany > Correspondence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: "A Very Rare Thing" / by Michael Grimshaw -- Carl Schmitt: Apocalyptic Prophet of the Counter-revolution -- Letter to Armin Mohler -- Appendix: Four Passages from Letters of Carl Schmitt to Armin Mohler -- Letter to Carl Schmitt -- Extract from a Dispute About Carl Schmitt -- 1948-1978: Thirty Years of Refusal -- Editorial Note / Peter Gente.

ISBN

• 9780231154123 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0231154127 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780231520348 (e-book)
• 0231520344 (e-book)

LCCN

^^2012035759

OCLC

• 814951910
• SCSB-11284368

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library