The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into
the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life Scion of a
distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923-1987)
was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him
from prewar Vienna to Zurich, Israel, and Cold War Berlin. Regarded
by some as a genius, by others as a charlatan, Taubes moved among
yeshivas, monasteries, and leading academic institutions on three
continents. He wandered between Judaism and Christianity, left and
right, piety and transgression. Along the way, he interacted with
many of the leading minds of the age, from Leo Strauss and Gershom
Scholem to Herbert Marcuse, Susan Sontag, and Carl Schmitt.
Professor of Apocalypse is the definitive biography of this
enigmatic figure and a vibrant mosaic of twentieth-century
intellectual life. Jerry Muller shows how Taubes's personal
tensions mirrored broader conflicts between religious belief and
scholarship, allegiance to Jewish origins and the urge to escape
them, tradition and radicalism, and religion and politics. He
traces Taubes's emergence as a prominent interpreter of the Apostle
Paul, influencing generations of scholars, and how his journey led
him from crisis theology to the Frankfurt School, and from a
radical Hasidic sect in Jerusalem to the center of academic debates
over Gnosticism, secularization, and the revolutionary potential of
apocalypticism. Professor of Apocalypse offers an unforgettable
account of an electrifying world of ideas, focused on a charismatic
personality who thrived on controversy and conflict.
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