Hermann Cohen’s Jewish Reception: a Yale Workshop in Jewish Thought will take place on Zoom.
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