Herman Cohen’s Jewish Reception on Zoom

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Event time: 
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 9:00am to Thursday, May 9, 2024 - 5:00pm
Location: 
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If you are not a participant, please write to paul.franks@yale.edu for the Zoom link.

Program

May 8

9:00 – 9:30 Introductory remarks

9: 30 – 11: 30 Abba Gordin and the Yiddish Anarchism
Lilian Tuerk: Abba Gordin: The early writings (1908-1926). A variety of Jewish anarchist thought.
Hayyim Rothman: American Pragmatism, Jewish science, and anarchist religiosity: Prayer in the thought of Abba Gordin
Iveta Leitane: Abba Gordin, Yidishkayt, and the Idols of (Jewish) Marxism

11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break

11:45 – 12.30 Approaching Marburg constellation from a different angle
Georg Hartmann: Gerhard Krüger’s approach to metaphysics and natural theology against the background of Marburg Hermeneutics, including a side note on Leo Strauss

12: 30 – 13: 30 Lunch

13: 30 – 15: 30 Talmud, Kant, Neo-Kantianism
Norman Solomon: The Elusiveness of Certainty: On Defining the Halakha.
Sergey Dolgopolski: “The losing of Talmud in Subjectivität?” Heidegger, Cassirer, Talmud (once again)

15:30 – 15: 45 concluding remarks

May 9

10:00 – 11:00 Ernst Cassirer: reconceptualization of myth
Ira Katchur:  Cassirer’s Shift from Hermann Cohen: from Substance and Function to The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms

11:00 – 11.30 Coffee break

11: 30 – 13: 30 Steven S. Schwarzschild – a Cohenian Orthodox Jew?
George Y. Kohler:  Was Kant a racist?  - Regulative Idealization of Texts according to Schwarzschild
Kenneth Seeskin: Idealization as a Way of Life

13: 30 – 14: 30 Lunch

14: 30 Hermann Cohen’s reception in the United States
Shira Billet

15: 15 – 16: 00 Concluding debates and remarks

Session “Hermann Cohen and Hermann Broch” (This session was held on April 29 and its results will be briefly summarized in the concluding discussion)

3:30 – 5:00, MacMillan Center, Rm 302

Iveta Leitane

Resp. Kirk Wetters, Ido Ben-Harush

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