Jacob Taubes: Sovereignty and Messianic Time

By: Stimilli, Elettra

The first English translation of the only monograph on Jacob Taubes' work, one of the most important Jewish thinkers of the 20th century.

Elettra Stimilli, an Italian philosopher, shows how Taubes brilliantly deconstructs Saint Paul's writings to reveal their more subversive and heterodox implications.

She offers close readings of his interlocutions with Carl Schmitt and we see how such original thought ushered in a new realm of political theology that has been crucial to contemporary thinkers such as Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou.

Stimilli's incisive treatment of Taubes finally brings him to the attention of an even wider audience. This is essential reading for anyone researching political theology, 20th=century Jewish thought and the relationship between theology and philosophy today.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350104787
• ISBN13: 9781350104785
• Release Date: April 2027
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.5"