The Society for Continental Philosophy in a Jewish Context (CPJC)
(held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of SPEP)
Saturday, October 30, 2004, 7:30 - 10:20 p.m.
Natchez Room, Downtown Marriott, Memphis, Tennessee
Judaism and the Politics of Alterity
Moderator: Dana Hollander (McMaster University)
"Welcoming the Stranger in Our Midst: Thinking Alterity Within Tradition," Andrew Benjamin (Monash University)
"Levinas in the Key of the Political," Oona Eisenstadt (Pomona College)
Text Discussion: Hermann Cohen, "Ethics of Maimonides," chap. 1*
Discussants: Deborah Achtenberg (University of Nevada, Reno) (Moderator); Dana Hollander (McMaster University); Alan Udoff (St. Francis College)
| *Hermann Cohen, "Charakteristik
der Ethik Maimunis" (1908), in Jüdische Schriften (Berlin:
Schwetschke, 1924), vol. 3 (available as a reprint
from Ayer Company Publishers)
Translated by Almut Sh. Bruckstein in Hermann Cohen, Ethics of Maimonides (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004) (click on the book cover for more information) - This book will be exhibited at the SPEP Book Exhibit, at the Noesis Press table. Copies of this selection (chap. 1) are being made available to CPJC members and interested participants - please e-mail danahol@mcmaster.ca for details. |
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Light refreshments will be provided.
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posted April 2004
updated August 22, 2004
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