From Cult to Culture - Fragments Toward a Critique of Historical Reason

Zusatztext "This collection of essays is an important introduction to the work of a writer and thinker who isn't widely discussed today . . . It belongs on the shelves of university and seminary libraries." Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jacob Taubes
• Assisted by: Amir Engel (Editor), Charlotte Fonrobert (Editor), Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert (Editor)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.12.2009
• EAN: 9780804739849
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-3984-9
• No. of pages: 456
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries