Gateway between a Distant God and a Cruel World

The Contribution of Jewish German-Speaking Scholars to International Law

AvReut Yael Paz

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

Del 16 i serien Erik Castrén Institute Monographs on International Law and Human Rights

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Beskrivning

Through a collective biographical methodology of four scholars (Hans Kelsen, Hans J. Morgenthau, Hersch Lauterpacht and Erich Kaufmann) this book investigates how Jewish identity and intellectual ties to Judaic civilisation in the German speaking and legal context influenced international law. By using biblical constitutive metaphors, it argues that Jewish German lawyers inherited, inter alia, a particular Jewish legal approach that ‘made’ their understanding of the law as a means to reach God. The overarching argument is that because of their Jewish heritage, Jewish scholars inherited the endorsement of earthly particularism for the sake of universalism and the other way around: for the sake of universalism, humanity’s differences need to be solved through the law.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-10-19
Mått:155 x 235 x 29 mm
Vikt:1 720 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Erik Castrén Institute Monographs on International Law and Human Rights
Antal sidor:398
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004228733

Utforska kategorier

Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhälle och politik
Internationell rätt inom Juridik
Folkrätt inom Juridik

Mer om författaren

Reut Yael Paz, Ph.D. (2009) in international law/politics. Paz has conducted her research on the ‘Jewish question’ within the international legal framework at the University of Helsinki, Bar Ilan University (Israel) and at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Recensioner i media

"I found this book fascinating reading, particularly because of the mosaic-like quality of the author’s narrative style and her ability to bring together a number of interesting trends, biographical material, and reconstructed academic debates, and its innovative rooting (indirectly) of modern theories of international law with biblical hermeneutics."Peter Petkoff, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2013), pp. 483–490.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments; Prologue; Chapter I: Introduction1.1. Reading Judaism/Jewish Identity in International Law 1.2. Setting the Stage: Techniques, Precision and Structure 1.3. Time and Place1.4. StructureChapter II: Historical Background2.1. On Direct & Indirect Impacts of Geo-Historical Factors2.2. European Enlightenment & Jewish Haskalah2.3. Stepping into Modernity2.4. Emancipation & Religion2.5. The Geography of Emancipation2.6. The Rubric of the German Culture2.7. Bildung in Hapsburg Empire & Germany: The Politics of Emancipation2.8. Haskalah as a Link 2.9. Enlightenment versus Emancipation2.10. Evaluating Cosmopolitanism: Gebildeten versus Maskilim 2.11. Conclusion: the BeginningChapter III: Jews, Universalities and International Law3.1. Retracing Jewish Legal Denkstil/Denkkollektiv3.2. To be (or not to be) Jewish in German-Speaking Universities3.3. Jewish Legal Denkstil/Denkkollektiv as Gateways in German Law Faculties 3.4. Jewish Cosmopolitanism with a Legal Denkstil/Denkkollektiv3.5. First Parallel Development: International Law 3.6. Second Parallel Development: German Colonialism 3.7. Modernity’s Cosmopolitan StrategiesChapter IV: First Steps of Jewish Gateways to God via International Law4.1. Structural Paths to God’s Universality4.2. Georg Jellinek 4.3. Jellinek’s Gateway to God between Goodness & TruthChapter V: Dramatis Personae: Background, Career, Intellectual ‘Seasons’ & Judaic Affiliations5.1. Collective Biography5.2. Comparison of Early Lives5.3. The early Academic Careers; Orientations & Intellectual Influences5.4. Later Intellectual & Political ‘Seasons’ & Careers 5.5. Jewish Identity & Availing of Opportunities 5.6. Endnotes: The Biographical Source MaterialChapter VI: The Gateways to God of the Dramatis Personae 6.1. The Basic Doctrine; ‘went looking for God, will be back soon.’6.2. Kaufmann’s Factual-Morality6.3. Kelsen’s Normative-Scientism6.3.2. Transcendental Scientism 6.4. Lauterpacht’s Normative-Morality 6.5. Morgenthau’s Factual-Scientism6.6. Similarities & Differences?6.7. Mutual DependenciesChapter VII: Ascertaining the Gateway to God – First Illustration7.1. Realizing the Structure of Argument in International Cases7.2. Kaufmann: Post-War Vaterlandsliebe & International Law7.3. Kelsen’s Assessment of the Nuremberg7.4. Lauterpacht: Drafting the Israeli Declaration of Independence7.5. Morgenthau: The Moral Dilemma of the Middle East7.6. Sustaining Doctrinal Necessities ‘First Illustration’Chapter VIII: Ascertaining the Gateway to God – Second Illustration8.1. Legal Debates with Jewishness as an Undertone8.2. Kelsen vs. Schmitt8.3. Kaufmann vs. Smend vs. Schmitt vs. Nawiasky vs. Kelsen8.4. Morgenthau vs. Schmitt; Morgenthau vs. Laski8.5. Lauterpacht vs. Stone vs. Carr; Lauterpacht vs. Kaufmann8.6. Sustaining Doctrinal Necessities ‘Second Illustration’Chapter IX: ConclusionsBibliography; Index.