November 29 , 2010
Classic Jewish Thought in Germany
A conference hosted by the Department of Philosophy and the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies with the generous support of the Boston University Humanities Foundation
“Hermann Cohen’s Discovery of the Transcendental”
by Frederick Beiser (Syracuse)
“Why Study Hermann Cohen”
by Reinier Munk (Amsterdam)
Moderated by Michael Zank (Boston University)
November 29, 2010
3-6 pm
Boston University
School of Theology, Room 525
745 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts
Dr. Beiser, Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University, is the author of numerous acclaimed books on the history of German thought in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, e.g., The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte (Harvard, 1993) and The Romantic Imperative (Harvard, 2003); Schiller as Philosopher (Oxford, 2005); and Diotima’s Children: German Aesthetic Rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing (Oxford, 2010).
Dr. Munk is an Ordinarius Professor in the History of Modern Philosophy and Modern Jewish Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Dr. Munk is an internationally renowned specialist in eighteenth century Jewish thought, particularly in the roles played by such figures as Moses Mendelssohn and Solomon Maimon in the German Enlightenment, and in the work of the leading figure of Marburg Neo-Kantianism, Hermann Cohen. His publications include numerous articles and the monograph, The Rationale of Halakhic Man. Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s Conception of Jewish Thought. Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Thought (Amsterdam, 1996).