Lexington Books
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978-0-7391-4072-7 • Hardback • January 2012 • $184.00 • (£142.00)
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Leonard V. Kaplan is Mortimer M. Jackson Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Rudy Koshar is the George L. Mosse WARF Professor of History, German & Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Introduction
Rudy Koshar
I. Political Theologies
Chapter 1: Protestant Revolt Against Modernity by Klaus Tanner
Chapter 2: Catholic Anti-Liberalism in the Weimar Republic: Political Theology
and its Criticsby Michael Hollerich
Chapter 3: “Together a Step Towards the Messianic Goal”: Jewish-Protestant
Encounter in the Weimar Republic by Ulrich Rosenhagen
Chapter 4: Hannah Arendt in Weimar: Beyond the Theological-Political
Predicament? by Rodrigo Chacón
Chapter 5: Walter Benjamin, Religion, and a Theological Politics, ca. 1922 by Michael Jennings
Chapter 6: The Creaturely Limits of Knowledge: Martin Heidegger’s Theological Critique of Immanuel Kant by Samuel Moyn and Azzan Yadin-Israel
Chapter 7: Politics, Theology, Race, and Religion: The 1916-1924 Dialogue of
Franz Rosenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy by Gregory Kaplan
Chapter 8: Authority Beyond the Bounds of Mere Reason: A Political-Theological Sketch of the Schmitt-Strauss Exchange by John McCormick
Chapter 9: The Political from Weimar to the Present by Leonard Kaplan
II. Karl Barth
Chapter 10: Barthian Dialectics: “Yes” and “No” on the Barthian Revolt and its Legacy by Gary Dorrien
Chapter 11: Karl Barth and the Weimar Republic by Christophe Chalamet
Chapter 12: Theology’s Weimar Moment: History before the Eschatological Limit by Michael McGillen
Chapter 13: Barth Among Anselm and Augustine: Realism in Karl Barth’s
Anselm Commentary by Carl Rasmussen
Chapter 14: Demythologizing the Secular: Karl Barth and the Politics of the
Weimar Republic by Rudy Koshar
Liberalism, Law, Politics
Chapter 15: German Idealism and German Liberalism in the 1920s: Remarks on Ernst Cassirer and the Historicity of Interpretation by Peter Gordon
Chapter 16: Sovereignty, Constitutionalism, and the Myth of the State: Article Four of the Weimar Constitution by Peter Caldwell
Chapter 17: The Grammar of Laws by Robert Gibbs
Chapter 18: Haunted by the Ghost of Weimar: Leo Strauss’ Critique of Hans Kelsen by David Novak
Chapter 19: Displacement, Abstraction and Historical Specificity: Comments on the
Frankfurt School’s Critical Theory by Jeffrey Herf
Chapter 20: The Ideological Struggle for the German Soul in Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain by Garbriel Ricci
Chapter 21: The Limits of Dictatorship and the Origins of Democracy: The Political Theory of Carl J. Friedrich from Weimar to the Cold War by Udi Greenberg
Conclusion: Notes toward a Theory of Political and Legal Resistance by Leonard Kaplan
Weimar’s ghostly presence is brought home, in its range and continuing relevance, is this splendid array of carefully crafted and integrated essays. It is a singular addition to the literature.
— Lawrence Rosen, Princeton University
[T]he book, with its treasure trove of footnotes, is a fascinating and informative documentation of a period in European history whose relevance to the present should never have been missed. The editors are to be congratulated for producing this excellent critique.
— Lutheran Quarterly