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From Cult to Culture: Fragments toward a Critique of Historical Reason
Jacob Taubes
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Paperback. The book is the English edition of a collection of essays by Jacob Taubes, one of the most creative and idiosyncratic philosophers of religion in Germany of the second half of the twentieth century. Editor(s): Fonrobert, Charlotte Elisheva; Engel, Amir. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: JFCX; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
After launching his career with the 1947 publication of his dissertation, Occidental Eschatology, Jacob Taubes spent the early years of his career as a fellow and then professor at various American institutions, including Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia. During his American years, he also gathered together a number of prominent thinkers at his weekly seminars on Jewish intellectual history. In the mid-60s, Taubes joined the faculty of the Free University in West Berlin, initially as the city's first Jewish Studies professor of the postwar period. But his work and interest expanded beyond the boundaries of the field of Jewish Studies to ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Memory in the Present
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804739849
SKU
V9780804739849
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About Jacob Taubes
One of the great Jewish intellectuals of the twentieth century, Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) was a rabbi, philosopher of religion, and scholar of Judaism. Stanford published a translation of his Political Theology of Paul in 2004.
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"[From Cult to Culture] include[s] elaborate contemplations about topics such as Jewish mysticism and Judeo-Christian messianism, Christian theology in both ancient and modern times, 'notes on Surrealism,' and relevant work on the relationship between culture and ideology, 'the current state of Polytheism,' or religion and psychoanalysis. The editors of the collection, which is organized thematically, are a group of loyal ... Read more