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A Gateway between a Distant God and A Cruel World: The Contribution of Jewish German-Speaking Scholars to International Law


ISBN13: 9789004228733
Published: October 2012
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
Country of Publication: The Netherlands
Format: Hardback
Price: £191.00



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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.

Subjects:
Public International Law, Jurisprudence, General Interest
Contents:
Acknowledgments
Prologue

Chapter I: Introduction
1.1. Reading Judaism/Jewish Identity in International Law
1.2. Setting the Stage: Techniques, Precision and Structure
1.3. Time and Place
1.4. Structure

Chapter II: Historical Background
2.1. On Direct & Indirect Impacts of Geo-Historical Factors
2.2. European Enlightenment & Jewish Haskalah
2.3. Stepping into Modernity
2.4. Emancipation & Religion
2.5. The Geography of Emancipation
2.6. The Rubric of the German Culture
2.7. Bildung in Hapsburg Empire & Germany: The Politics of Emancipation
2.8. Haskalah as a Link
2.9. Enlightenment versus Emancipation
2.10. Evaluating Cosmopolitanism: Gebildeten versus Maskilim
2.11. Conclusion: the Beginning

Chapter III: Jews, Universalities and International Law
3.1. Retracing Jewish Legal Denkstil/Denkkollektiv
3.2. To be (or not to be) Jewish in German-Speaking Universities
3.3. Jewish Legal Denkstil/Denkkollektiv as Gateways in German Law Faculties
3.4. Jewish Cosmopolitanism with a Legal Denkstil/Denkkollektiv
3.5. First Parallel Development: International Law
3.6. Second Parallel Development: German Colonialism
3.7. Modernity’s Cosmopolitan Strategies

Chapter IV: First Steps of Jewish Gateways to God via International Law
4.1. Structural Paths to God’s Universality
4.2. Georg Jellinek
4.3. Jellinek’s Gateway to God between Goodness & Truth

Chapter V: Dramatis Personae: Background, Career, Intellectual ‘Seasons’ & Judaic Affiliations
5.1. Collective Biography
5.2. Comparison of Early Lives
5.3. The early Academic Careers
Orientations & Intellectual Influences
5.4. Later Intellectual & Political ‘Seasons’ & Careers
5.5. Jewish Identity & Availing of Opportunities
5.6. Endnotes: The Biographical Source Material

Chapter 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-Morality
6.3. Kelsen’s Normative-Scientism
6.3.2. Transcendental Scientism
6.4. Lauterpacht’s Normative-Morality
6.5. Morgenthau’s Factual-Scientism
6.6. Similarities & Differences?
6.7. Mutual Dependencies

Chapter VII: Ascertaining the Gateway to God – First Illustration
7.1. Realizing the Structure of Argument in International Cases
7.2. Kaufmann: Post-War Vaterlandsliebe & International Law
7.3. Kelsen’s Assessment of the Nuremberg
7.4. Lauterpacht: Drafting the Israeli Declaration of Independence
7.5. Morgenthau: The Moral Dilemma of the Middle East
7.6. Sustaining Doctrinal Necessities ‘First Illustration’

Chapter VIII: Ascertaining the Gateway to God – Second Illustration
8.1. Legal Debates with Jewishness as an Undertone
8.2. Kelsen vs. Schmitt
8.3. Kaufmann vs. Smend vs. Schmitt vs. Nawiasky vs. Kelsen
8.4. Morgenthau vs. Schmitt
Morgenthau vs. Laski
8.5. Lauterpacht vs. Stone vs. Carr
Lauterpacht vs. Kaufmann
8.6. Sustaining Doctrinal Necessities ‘Second Illustration’

Chapter IX: Conclusions

Bibliography
Index.