A gateway between a distant god and a cruel world : the contribution of Jewish German-Speaking scholars to international law / by Reut Yael Paz.
2013
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Title
A gateway between a distant god and a cruel world : the contribution of Jewish German-Speaking scholars to international law / by Reut Yael Paz.
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Pub., 2013.
Call Number
KZ1242 .P395 2013
ISBN
9789004228733 (hardback ; alk. paper)
900422873X (hardback ; alk. paper)
9789004228740 (e-book)
9004228748 (e-book)
900422873X (hardback ; alk. paper)
9789004228740 (e-book)
9004228748 (e-book)
Description
xviii, 397 pages ; 25 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)794033069
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-384) and index.
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Table of Contents
Foreword
xi
Acknowledgments
xv
Prologue
xvii
1.
Introduction
1
1.1.
Reading Judaism/Jewish Identity in International Law
18
1.1.1.
Jewish Legal Denkstil/Denkkollektiv
19
1.1.2.
Jewish Identity & Judaism
20
1.1.3.
Jewish Cosmopolitanism
23
1.1.4.
International Law as `a (Jewish) Gateway to God'
28
1.2.
Setting the Stage: Techniques, Precision and Structure
32
1.2.1.
Wissenssoziologie
32
1.2.2.
Collective Biography
36
1.3.
Time and Place
38
1.4.
Structure
39
2.
Historical Background
43
2.1.
On Direct and Indirect Impacts of Geo-Historical Factors
43
2.2.
European Enlightenment(s) & Jewish Haskalah
45
2.3.
Stepping into Modernity
48
2.4.
Emancipation and Religion
49
2.5.
Geography of Emancipation
51
2.6.
Rubric of German Culture
53
2.7.
Bildung in Hapsburg Empire and Germany: The Politics of Emancipation
59
2.7.1.
Habsburg Empire
62
2.7.2.
Detour into Galicia
64
2.8.
Haskalah as a Link
66
2.8.1.
Haskalah's External and Internal Circumstances
67
2.8.2.
External Conditions
67
2.8.3.
Internal Conditions
68
2.9.
Enlightenment(s) versus Emancipation
72
2.9.1.
Kant and Mendelssohn
72
2.9.2.
What is Enlightenment?
73
2.10.
Evaluating Cosmopolitanism: Gebildeten vs. Maskilim
80
2.11.
Conclusion: The Beginning
83
3.
Jews, Universities and International Law
85
3.1.
Retracing Jewish Legal Denkstil/Denkkollektiv
86
3.1.1.
Tower of Babel as the Origin of International Law
86
3.1.2.
From Babel to Jewish Legal Denkstil/Denkkollektiv
91
3.2.
To be (or not to be) Jewish in German-Speaking Universities
93
3.2.1.
Jews and German Universities
93
3.2.2.
Jews and Habsburg Universities
95
3.2.3.
Galician Jews and Universities
96
3.3.
Jewish Legal Denkstil/Denkkollekttiv as Gateways in German Law Faculties
97
3.3.1.
Gans: Radical Hegelianism
98
3.3.2.
Friedrich Julius Stahl: The `Paul' of the 19th Century
105
3.3.3.
Gabriel Riesser: Jewish Masculine Militarism
110
3.4.
Jewish Cosmopolitanism with a Legal Denkstil/Denkkollektiv
115
3.5.
First Parallel Development: International Law
118
3.6.
Second Parallel Development: German Colonialism
123
3.7.
Modern Cosmopolitan Strategies
125
4.
First Steps towards Jewish Gateways to God in International Law
129
4.1.
Structural Paths to God's Universality
129
4.1.1.
Path of Truth and/or Goodness?
129
4.1.2.
Rosenzweig's Truth vs. Levinas' Goodness
132
4.2.
Georg Jellinek
137
4.2.1.
Contextualizing Jellinek's Jewish Background
137
4.2.2.
Georg Jellinek's Legal Approach as a Gateway to God
144
4.3.
Jellinek's Gateway to God between Truth and Goodness
153
5.
Dramatis Personae: Background, Career, Intellectual `Seasons' and Judaic Affiliations
157
5.1.
Collective Biography
157
5.2.
Comparison of Early Lives
158
5.2.1.
Familial Backgrounds
158
5.2.1.1.
Erich Kaufmann (1880-1972)
158
5.2.1.2.
Hans Kelsen (1881-1973)
159
5.2.1.3.
Hersch Lauterpacht (1897-1960)
159
5.2.1.4.
Hans J. Morgenthau (1904-1980)
159
5.2.2.
Early Education and Aspirations
160
5.2.2.1.
Kaufmann
160
5.2.2.2.
Kelsen
160
5.2.2.3.
Lauterpacht
161
5.2.2.4.
Morgenthau
162
5.2.3.
Early Academic Careers: Orientations and Intellectual Influences
162
5.2.3.1.
Kaufmann
162
5.2.3.2.
Kelsen
163
5.2.3.3.
Lauterpacht
163
5.2.3.4.
Morgenthau
164
5.3.
Jewish Heritage: Relating to Judaism and Jewish Resources
165
5.3.1.
Kaufmann
165
5.3.2.
Kelsen
166
5.3.3.
Lauterpacht
166
5.3.4.
Morgenthau
167
5.4.
Later Intellectual and Political `Seasons' and Careers
167
5.4.1.
Kaufmann - German Conviction
168
5.4.1.1.
Initial Choices
169
5.4.1.2.
Start of Career
170
5.4.1.3.
Crucial Choices
175
5.4.2.
Kelsen - Search and Commitment
178
5.4.2.1.
Initial Choices
178
5.4.2.2.
Start of Career
178
5.4.2.3.
Crucial Choices
180
5.4.2.4.
Persecution, Escape, Relocations
182
5.4.2.5.
Impact of the Holocaust and the Independence of Israel
183
5.4.3.
Lauterpacht - Commitment and Choice
184
5.4.3.1.
Initial Choices
184
5.4.3.2.
Start of Career
186
5.4.3.3.
Crucial Choices
186
5.4.3.4.
Impact of the Holocaust and the Independence of Israel
189
5.4.4.
Morgenthau - Doubt, Search, and Doubt Again
190
5.4.4.1.
Initial Choices
190
5.4.4.2.
Start of Career
192
5.4.4.3.
Persecution, Escape, Relocations
192
5.4.4.3.1.
Geneva
192
5.4.4.3.2.
Madrid
192
5.4.4.3.3.
America - Starting Again
193
5.4.4.4.
Impact of the Holocaust
194
5.5.
Jewish Identity and Availing of Opportunities
196
5.5.1.
Kaufmann
196
5.5.2.
Kelsen
197
5.5.3.
Lauterpacht
198
5.5.4.
Morgenthau
198
6.
Gateways to God of the Dramatis Personae
203
6.1.
Basic Doctrine: `went looking for God, will be back soon'
203
6.2.
Kaufmann's Factual-Morality
204
6.2.1.
Overcoming Liberal Dichotomies by Aufhebung
204
6.2.2.
Aufgehobende Vaterlandsliebe
214
6.3.
Kelsen's Normative-Scientism
218
6.3.1.
From Wertvakuum to Legal Normativism
218
6.3.2.
Transcendental Scientism
230
6.4.
Lauterpacht's Normative-Morality
235
6.4.1.
Idealizing the Complete in Incompleteness
235
6.4.2.
Rabbinical Morality
244
6.5.
Morgenthau's Factual-Scientism
246
6.5.1.
Idealizing Universal Realism
246
6.5.2.
Quest for Truth by Eliminating Morality
253
6.6.
Similarities and Differences?
258
6.7.
Mutual Dependencies
263
7.
Ascertaining the Gateways to God - First Illustration
267
7.1.
Realizing the Structure of Argument in International Cases
267
7.2.
Kaufmann: Post-War Vaterlandsliebe and International Law
267
7.3.
Kelsen's Assessment of Nuremberg
275
7.4.
Lauterpacht: Drafting the Israeli Declaration of Independence
284
7.5.
Morgenthau: The Moral Dilemma of the Middle East
292
7.6.
Sustaining Doctrinal Necessities - First Illustration
298
8.
Ascertaining the Gateways to God - Second Illustration
303
8.1.
Legal Debates with Jewishness as an Undertone
303
8.2.
Kelsen vs. Schmitt
304
8.3.
Kaufmann vs. Smend vs. Schmitt vs. Nawiasky vs. Kelsen
309
8.4.
Morgenthau vs. Schmitt; Morgenthau vs. Laski
325
8.5.
Lauterpacht vs. Carr vs. Stone (vs. Kelsen); Lauterpacht vs. Kaufmann
331
8.6.
Sustaining Doctrinal Necessities - Second Illustration
341
9.
Conclusions
353
Bibliography
359
Index
385