Professor of apocalypse: the many lives of Jacob Taubes

Introduction: Why Taubes?

Yichus : Vienna, 1923-36

Coming of age in Switzerland, 1936-47

Intellectual roots, grand themes, 1941-46

Occidental eschatology and beyond, 1946-47

New York and the Jewish Theological Seminary, 1947-49

Jerusalem, 1949-52

Making it? 1952-56

Columbia years, 1956-66 : the merchant of ideas and the invention of religious studies

Between New York and Berlin, 1961-66

Berlin : impresario of theory

The apocalyptic moment

Deradicalization and crisis, 1969-75

A wandering Jew : Berlin-Jerusalem-Paris, 1976-81

"Ach, ja, Taubes ..." : a character sketch

Schmitt and political theology revisited, 1982-86

Final act, 1986-87

The afterlives of Jacob Taubes

Conclusion