Introduction Rudy Koshar I. Political Theologies Chapter 1: Protestant Revolt Against Modernity by Klaus Tanner Chapter 2: Catholic Anti-Liberalism in the Weimar Republic: Political Theology and its Criticsby Michael Hollerich Chapter 3: "Together a Step Towards the Messianic Goal": Jewish-Protestant Encounter in the Weimar Republic by Ulrich Rosenhagen Chapter 4: Hannah Arendt in Weimar: Beyond the Theological-Political Predicament? by Rodrigo Chacón Chapter 5: Walter Benjamin, Religion, and a Theological Politics, ca. 1922 by Michael Jennings Chapter 6: The Creaturely Limits of Knowledge: Martin Heidegger''s Theological Critique of Immanuel Kant by Samuel Moyn and Azzan Yadin-Israel Chapter 7: Politics, Theology, Race, and Religion: The 1916-1924 Dialogue of Franz Rosenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy by Gregory Kaplan Chapter 8: Authority Beyond the Bounds of Mere Reason: A Political-Theological Sketch of the Schmitt-Strauss Exchange by John McCormick Chapter 9: The Political from Weimar to the Present by Leonard Kaplan II. Karl Barth Chapter 10: Barthian Dialectics: "Yes" and "No" on the Barthian Revolt and its Legacy by Gary Dorrien Chapter 11: Karl Barth and the Weimar Republic by Christophe Chalamet Chapter 12: Theology''s Weimar Moment: History before the Eschatological Limit by Michael McGillen Chapter 13: Barth Among Anselm and Augustine: Realism in Karl Barth''s Anselm Commentary by Carl Rasmussen Chapter 14: Demythologizing the Secular: Karl Barth and the Politics of the Weimar Republic by Rudy Koshar Liberalism, Law, Politics Chapter 15: German Idealism and German Liberalism in the 1920s: Remarks on Ernst Cassirer and the Historicity of Interpretation by Peter Gordon Chapter 16: Sovereignty, Constitutionalism, and the Myth of the State: Article Four of the Weimar Constitution by Peter Caldwell Chapter 17: The Grammar of Laws by Robert Gibbs Chapter 18: Haunted by the Ghost of Weimar: Leo Strauss'' Critique of Hans Kelsen by David Novak Chapter 19: Displacement, Abstraction and Historical Specificity: Comments on the Frankfurt School''s Critical Theory by Jeffrey Herf Chapter 20: The Ideological Struggle for the German Soul in Thomas Mann''s Magic Mountain by Garbriel Ricci Chapter 21: The Limits of Dictatorship and the Origins of Democracy: The Political Theory of Carl J. Friedrich from Weimar to the Cold War by Udi Greenberg Conclusion: Notes toward a Theory of Political and Legal Resistance by Leonard Kaplan.