Jacob Taubes
| Jacob Taubes | |
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| Born |
25 February 1923 Vienna, Austria |
| Died |
21 March 1987 (aged 64) West Berlin |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
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Jacob Taubes (25 February 1923 – 21 March 1987) was a sociologist of religion, philosopher, and scholar of Judaism.
Taubes was born into an old rabbinical family. He was married to the writer Susan Taubes. He obtained his doctorate in 1947 for a thesis on "Occidental Eschatology" and initially taught religious studies and Jewish studies in the United States at Harvard, Columbia and Princeton University.
From 1965 he was professor of Jewish studies and hermeneutics at the Free University of Berlin. He has influenced many contemporary thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Susan Sontag, Avital Ronell, Marshall Berman, Babette Babich, Alaida and Jan Assman, Amos Funkenstein and Peter Sloterdijk.
Taubes' books include Occidental Eschatology [Stanford UP, 2009] and The Political Theology of Paul [Stanford UP, 2004].
References
- Joshua Robert Gold, "Jacob Taubes: 'Apocalypse From Below'", Telos 134 (Spring 2006): 140–56.
- Nitzan Lebovic, "Jacob Taubes: Looking into the Beauty of the Night", H-Judaic (Spring, 2011): www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=29694