Lexington Books
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978-0-7391-4072-7 • Hardback • January 2012 • $194.00 • (£150.00)
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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
[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
Weimar’s ghostly presence is brought home, in its range and continuing relevance, in this splendid array of carefully crafted and integrated essays. It is a singular addition to the literature.
— Lawrence Rosen, Princeton University