Wetenschap
Nieuws

Hannah Arendt leert hoe we het heden het hoofd kunnen bieden

27 oktober 2024 Esha Guy Hadjadj 1

Aan biografieën over Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) geen tekort deze dagen.  Sinds de terugkomst van politieke strongmen als Donald Trump, Jaïr Bolsonaro, Javier Milei en Viktor Orban lijkt politiek denker Arendt alleen maar populairder te worden. Haar werk Origins of Totalitarianism was in de tweede helft van het vorige decennium hét handboek van een ieder die het veranderende politieke klimaat in de VS wilde begrijpen. Ook in het Nederlands werd het boek hertaald en in drie … [Lees verder]

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Religie en filosofie

Knowing Ourselves, Knowing God, Knowing Maimonides

6 februari 2024 Jonathan Gill 0

In part 1 Jonathan Gill introduced a profound debate on Orthodox Thinkers on authentic belief in a modern world, in his review of the recently published essays in Strauss, Spinoza, and Sinai: Orthodox Judaism and Modern Questions of Faith. Difference between knowing and believing The much contested problem of the difference between knowing and believing, or, if we prefer, between philosophy and rationality on the one hand and religious faith and belief on the other, is … [Lees verder]

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Orthodox Jewish thinkers on authentic religious belief in the modern world

1 februari 2024 Jonathan Gill 0

In recent years the Jewish background of the French essayist Michel de Montaigne has attracted increasing attention, and rightly so. His motto, “que sais-je?” or “what do I know?”  perhaps better translated as “what do I really know?” or even better yet “how do I know?”  ‘How do I know’ goes to the heart of the way Jews have wrestled with their identities, morally and politically, not to mention religiously, long before Ja’akov went mano … [Lees verder]
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Does Jewish weirdness need its own space? On the benefits of Limmud, and the No-State Solution of Daniel Boyarin

1 februari 2024 Yonathan Listik 0

De Vrijdagavond vraagt een aantal sprekers op komende Limmoed Nederland een voorproefje te geven over hun lezing. Filosofiedocent Yonathan Listik trapt af.  Boyarin and Levinas on judeo-anarchist possibility My talk at Limmoed 2024 entitled The No-State Solution: Boyarin and Levinas on judeo-anarchist possibility will investigate the idea that Jewishness can be constructed as a non-nationalistic or even anti-nationalistic posture.  This is largely based on Daniel Boyarin’s last book The No-State Solution. The central argument of … [Lees verder]