Jacob Taubes: Sovereignty and Messianic Time

This book presents the first in-depth survey of Austrian-Jewish sociologist and philosopher Jacob Taubes (1923-87).

Born in Vienna, Taubes and his family fled to Switzerland in the 1930s to escape Nazism, and the philosopher later took up positions at schools in the US and in Berlin. Paradoxically, however, Taubes shared correspondence with Carl Schmitt, the infamous "crown jurist" and legal theorist of the Nazi regime. This book unpacks these paradoxes through deep analytical observation o...