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- | '''Jacob Taubes''' (25 February 1923 – 21 March 1987) was a [[sociologist of religion]], [[philosopher]], and scholar of [[Judaism]]. | + | |
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- | Taubes was born into an old [[rabbi]]nical 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 University|Columbia]] and [[Princeton University]]. | + | |
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- | 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]]. | + | |
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- | Taubes' books include ''Occidental Eschatology'' [Stanford UP, 2009] and ''The Political Theology of Paul'' [Stanford UP, 2004]. | + | |
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