{"title":"Jerry Z. Muller","description":"\u003cp\u003eJerry Z. Muller offers incisive explorations into contemporary issues with a focus on society, education, and cultural criticism. His works often challenge prevailing trends and metrics, encouraging readers to reflect critically on modern institutions and their impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a sharp analytical style, Muller blends biography and intellectual history to illuminate complex ideas and provoke thoughtful debate. Readers seeking nuanced perspectives on education and societal change will find his books both engaging and enlightening.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"professor-of-apocalypse-by-jerry-z-muller-9780691170596","title":"Professor of Apocalypse","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eScion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar Vienna to Zurich, Israel, and Cold War Berlin. Regarded by some as a genius, by others as a charlatan, Taubes moved among yeshivas, monasteries, and leading academic institutions on three continents. He wandered between Judaism and Christianity, left and right, piety and transgression. Along the way, he interacted with many of the leading minds of the age, from Leo Strauss and Gershom Scholem to Herbert Marcuse, Susan Sontag, and Carl Schmitt. \u003ci\u003eProfessor of Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive biography of this enigmatic figure and a vibrant mosaic of twentieth-century intellectual life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJerry Muller shows how Taubes's personal tensions mirrored broader conflicts between religious belief and scholarship, allegiance to Jewish origins and the urge to escape them, tradition and radicalism, and religion and politics. He traces Taubes's emergence as a prominent interpreter of the Apostle Paul, influencing generations of scholars, and how his journey led him from crisis theology to the Frankfurt School, and from a radical Hasidic sect in Jerusalem to the centre of academic debates over Gnosticism, secularisation, and the revolutionary potential of apocalypticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProfessor of Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e offers an unforgettable account of an electrifying world of ideas, focused on a charismatic personality who thrived on controversy and conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46845547413740,"sku":"9780691170596","price":84.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/1693103482434.jpg?v=1758885664"},{"product_id":"the-tyranny-of-metrics-by-jerry-z-muller-9780691191911","title":"The Tyranny of Metrics","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens business, medicine, education, government - and the quality of our lives\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eToday, organisations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicising the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instil the evaluation process with scientific rigour, we've gone from measuring performance to fixating on measuring itself - and this tyranny of metrics now threatens the quality of our organisations and lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this brief, accessible, and powerful book, Jerry Muller uncovers the damage metrics are causing and shows how we can begin to fix the problem. Filled with examples from business, medicine, education, government, and other fields, the book explains why paying for measured performance doesn't work, why surgical scorecards may increase deaths, and much more. 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