After Jews. Essays on Political Theology, Shoah and the End of Man

This book endeavors to explore and critically analyze the human condition in the aftermath of the Shoah, within a world deemed "after Jews." The author accomplishes this through a lens of political theology, revitalizing key theological concepts such as eternity, salvation, the notion of a chosen people, apocalypse, and radical hope. His objective is to uncover the underlying conditions that made the Shoah possible, aiming to enhance our understanding of the contemporary rise in hostility toward those with deep-seated faith and traditional convictions. The pressing concern arises—is the haunting thought of the Shoah's recurrence, the reenactment of a tragic history in modern times, merely paranoia or an inflated fear? To address these questions, the author draws insight from a range of twentieth-century writers and philosophers, including Rene Girard, D.H. Lawrence, Jacob Taubes, Joseph Roth, Primo Levi, Jean Amery, W.G. Sebald, K.K. Baczynski, Czeslaw Milosz, Krzysztof Michalski, Jonathan Lear, Hannah Arendt, Vasily Rozanov, Giorgio Agamben, and Martin Heidegger. Although William Shakespeare and St. Paul are exceptions in terms of chronology, their enduring legacies render them effectively contemporary in this discourse.