The Weimar moment

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 Critics by 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 Chacon 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

Epistemology · Hegelianism · Liberalism · Modernity · Political science · Political theology · Politics · Protestantism · Theology · Weimar Republic · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Religious studies · 1918-1933 · Democracy · Germany · History · politics and government · Religion and law · Religious aspects