Jewish Philosophy and Culture from Halevi to Adorno

George Y. Kohler teaches at the Department of Jewish Philosophy and is Head of the Joseph Carlebach Institut at Bar Ilan University. His research focuses on German Jewish theology in the 19th century and on Jewish-Christian debates on religion during that time. He is the author of Reading Maimonides' Philosophy in 19th Century Germany (Springer, 2021) and he is the editor of a volume of Steven Schwarzschild’s essays on Hermann Cohen.Daniel H. Weiss is Polonsky-Coexist Professor of Jewish Studies and Philosophy of Religion, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. He is author of Paradox and the Prophets: Hermann Cohen and the Indirect Communication of Religion (2012) and Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence (2023), among other publications, and co-editor of multiple books, including Scripture and Violence (2020) and Tsimtsum and Modernity (2021). He is actively involved in Scriptural Reasoning and serves as Deputy Director of the Cambridge Interfaith Program.

• 1) Introduction.- 2) Two Modern Jewish Philosophies of History: Nachman Krochmal and Hermann Cohen (1955).- 3) Proselytism and Ethnicism in R. Yehudah HaLevy.- 4) Adorno and Schoenberg as Jews Between Kant and Hegel.- 5) Judaism in the Life and Work of Ernst Cassirer.- 6) An Introduction to the Thought of R. Isaac Hutner.