Israele e la teocrazia politica ebraica : l'attualità del Leviatano di Hobbes secondo Jacob Taubes

The article aims to investigate the new category of «political theocracy» that the Jewish-German philosopher Jacob Taubes coined at the end of 1970s in relation to the State of Israel. The study focuses on the development of Taubes' interest in Carl Schmitt's political theology and Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan since the second half of the 1970s. It analyzes the philosopher's dual confrontation with Carl Schmitt on the one hand, Gershom Scholem on the other. Such a paper thus argues for the idea that Taubes turned to Schmitt, his political theology and the study of modern political thinkers with the aim of questioning from a certain distance the theological-political problem that the rise of Zionism and the foundation of the State of Israel had entailed within contemporary Jewish thought and history. [Publisher's text]