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Occidental Eschatology (Paperback)
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Occidental Eschatology (Paperback)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
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"Occidental Eschatology," originally Jacob Taubes's doctoral thesis
and the one book he published in his lifetime, seeks to renegotiate
the historical synthesis and spiritual legacy of the West through
the study of apocalypticism. Covering the origins of apocalypticism
from Hebrew prophecy through antiquity and early Christianity to
its medieval revival in Joachim of Fiore, Taubes reveals its later
secularized forms in Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Kierkegaard. His aim is
to show the lasting influence of revolutionary, messianic teleology
on Western philosophy, history, and politics.
Combining painstaking scholarship with an unmatched scope of
reference, Taubes takes a comprehensive approach to the twin
focuses of political theology and philosophy of history. He argues
that acceptance of the idea that time will one day come to an end
has profound implications for political thought. If natural time is
experienced as an eternal cycle of events, "history" is the realm
of time in which human actions can make decisions to alter the
progression of events. This philosophy asks that individuals take
responsibility for their own actions and resist authority that
claims to act on their behalf. Whereas universal history is written
by the victors, the messianic or apocalyptic event enters history
and gives a voice to the oppressed.
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