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Apokalypse und Politik collects essays, reviews, and shorter writings of Jewish philosopher Jacob Taubes, making several of his English-language essays available for the first time in German translation and adding to a body of work that already includes the collection From Cult to Culture and the lectures contained in The Political Theology of Paul. Divided into four sections—essays and lectures, 1942–1962, essays and lectures 1963–1987, reviews, and public lectures and tributes—the volume spans Taubes's career and includes several texts that will be of interest to the readers of Telos. For example, Apokalypse und Politik makes available in German translation Taubes's…