Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 14, 2014).

Includes bibliographical references.

INTRODUCTION ""A Very Rare Thing"" Mike Grimshaw; CARL SCHMITT: Apocalyptic Prophet of the Counterrevolution; LETTER TO ARMIN MOHLER; APPENDIX: Four Passages from Letters of Carl Schmitt to Armin Mohler; LETTER TO CARL SCHMITT; EXTRACT FROM A DISPUTE ABOUT CARL SCHMITT; 1948-1978: Thirty Years of Refusal; EDITORIAL NOTE Peter Gente; Notes.

A philosopher, rabbi, religious historian, and Gnostic, Jacob Taubes was for many years a correspondent and interlocutor of Carl Schmitt (1888?1985), a German jurist, philosopher, political theorist, law professor?and self-professed Nazi. Despite their unlikely association, Taubes and Schmitt shared an abiding interest in the fundamental problems of political theology, believing the great challenges of modern political theory were ancient in pedigree and, in many cases, anticipated the works of Judeo-Christian eschatologists. In this collection of Taubes's writings on Schmitt, whic.

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