Martin Buber's Theopolitics

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Marxist socialists, and anarchic-syndicalist revolutionaries unite” on this point, with the re-
sult that “The modern state seems to have actually become what Max Weber envisioned: a huge
industrial plant.”



  1. Schmitt, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, trans. George
    Schwab (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), 1.

  2. Schmitt, Glossarium: Aufzeichnungen der Jahre 1947–1951, ed. Eberhard Freiherr von
    Medern (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1991), 243. Cited in the combined translations of Gross,
    Carl Schmitt and the Jews, 85–86, and Tracy B. Strong, “Carl Schmitt and Thomas Hobbes:
    Myth and Politics,” in Carl Schmitt, The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes:
    Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol, trans. George D. Schwab and Erna Hilfstein (Chi-
    cago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), xxiv. Weber had also mentioned the Grand Inquisitor
    as a cogent analysis of the problems attending an ethics of conviction; see Weber, “Profession
    and Vocation of Politics,” 14.

  3. Strong, “Carl Schmitt and Thomas Hobbes,” xxv.

  4. Schmitt, Leviathan, 5 7.

  5. Paul Müller [pseud. of Waldemar Gurian], “Entscheidung und Ordnung: Zu den
    Schriften von Carl Schmitt,” Schweizerische Rundschau: Monatsschrift für Geistesleben und
    Kultur 34 (1939): 566–576. Cited in Gross, Carl Schmitt and the Jews, 92–93.

  6. Schmitt, Political Theology, 55.

  7. Ibid., 50, 66.

  8. Schmitt, Concept of the Political, 29.

  9. Sorel is relevant here. See Carl Schmitt, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy, trans.
    Ellen Kennedy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988), 65–76.

  10. Strauss, “Notes on Concept of the Political,” 113.

  11. KG 140.

  12. Such rhetoric has also been adopted in some recent discourse; Siegbert Wolf entitles two
    volumes of his edition of Landauer’s writings Antipolitik.

  13. KG 14. For the Ponte Tresa lectures, see Buber, “Arbeitsgemeinschaft zu ausgewählten
    Abschnitten aus dem Buche Samuel,” in SM 46–91.

  14. Buber, “The How and Why of Our Bible Translation,” in ST 217.

  15. Buber, “Religion and God’s Rule,” 111.

  16. Buber, “Politics Born of Faith,” in A Believing Humanism, 178.

  17. Buber, “Biblical Leadership,” in Israel and the World: Essays in a Time of Crisis, trans. G.
    Hort (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 122.

  18. Ibid., 133.

  19. See chapter 7 for more on Buber’s effort to convince the 1921 Twelfth Zionist Congress to
    adopt an anti-imperialist resolution committing Zionism to cooperation with the Palestinian
    Arabs.

  20. Buber, “Three Theses,” 112.

  21. Buber, “Gandhi, Politics, and Us,” in PW 131 (emphasis Buber’s).

  22. Ibid., 127.

  23. Ibid., 130.

  24. Ibid., 129.

  25. Buber, “Gandhi, Politik, und Wir,” Die Kreatur 3 (1930): 333.

  26. Buber, “Gandhi, Politics, and Us,” 131.

  27. Ibid., 134.

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