Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Why Taubes? 1
4. Chapter 1 Yichus: Vienna, 1923–36 9
5. Chapter 2 Coming of Age in Switzerland, 1936–47 29
6. Chapter 3 Intellectual Roots, Grand Themes, 1941–46 52
7. Chapter 4 Occidental Eschatology and Beyond, 1946–47 71
8. Chapter 5 New York and the Jewish Theological Seminary, 1947–49 99
9. Chapter 6 Jerusalem, 1949–52 144
10. Chapter 7 Making It? 1952–56 181
11. Chapter 8 Columbia Years, 1956–66: The Merchant of Ideas and the Invention of Religious Studies 236
12. Chapter 9 Between New York and Berlin, 1961–66 264
13. Chapter 10 Berlin: Impresario of Theory 305
14. Chapter 11 The Apocalyptic Moment 336
15. Chapter 12 Deradicalization and Crisis, 1969–75 355
16. Chapter 13 A Wandering Jew: Berlin–Jerusalem– Paris, 1976–81 396
17. Chapter 14 “Ach, ja, Taubes . . .”: A Character Sketch 445
18. Chapter 15 Schmitt and Political Theology Revisited, 1982–86 453
19. Chapter 16 Final Act, 1986–87 480
20. Chapter 17 The Afterlives of Jacob Taubes 497
21. Conclusion 520
22. Acknowledgments 525
23. Abbreviations 531
24. Notes 533
25. Primary Sources 613
26. Index 619
27. A note on the type 639