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Der Sprössling ganzer Generationen bedeutender jüdischer Gelehrter aus Osteuropa und selbst ein Rabbiner, war Jacob Taubes (1923-1987) ein bedeutender Vertreter des Judentums in der Nachkriegszeit. Sein Weg führte ihn von seiner Geburtsstadt Wien über Zürich nach Israel, von dort nach New York und West-Berlin. Taubes war ein intellektueller Impresario, dessen Leben die Konflikte zwischen jüdischem Glauben und Christentum, aber auch den Theorien der Moderne, vor allem der Kritischen Theorie widerspiegelt. So entfaltet die Erzählung der vielen Leben dieses Professors der Apokalypse,...

At a time when the label "conservative" is indiscriminately applied to fundamentalists, populists, libertarians, fascists, and the advocates of one or another orthodoxy, this volume offers a nuanced and historically informed presentation of what is distinctive about conservative social and political thought. It is an anthology with an argument, locating the origins of modern conservatism within the Enlightenment and distinguishing between conservatism and orthodoxy. Bringing together important specimens of European and American conservative social and political analysis from the...

Why did some of the "best and brightest" of Weimar intellectuals advocate totalitarian solutions to the problems of liberal democratic, capitalist society? How did their "radical conservatism" contribute to the rise of National Socialism? What roles did they play in the Third Reich? How did their experience of totalitarianism lead them to recast their social and political thought? This biography of Hans Freyer, a prominent German sociologist and political ideologist, is a case study of intellectuals and a "god that failed"--not on the political left, but on the right, where its...

Counter to the popular impression that Adam Smith was a champion of selfishness and greed, Jerry Muller shows that the Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations maintained that markets served to promote the well-being of the populace and that government must intervene to counteract the negative effects of the pursuit of self-interest. Smith's analysis went beyond economics to embrace a larger "civilizing project" designed to create a more decent society.

The unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern European and Jewish history. But the subject has been addressed less often by mainstream historians than by anti-Semites or apologists. In this book Jerry Muller, a leading historian of capitalism, separates myth from reality to explain why the Jewish experience with capitalism has been so important and complex--and so ambivalent.

Drawing on economic, social, political, and intellectual history from medieval Europe through contemporary America and Israel, Capitalism and the...

"From the Oakland hills to the heart of...