9/30/08
Dieter Adelmann in memoriam
After a long period of poor health Dieter Adelmann died yesterday, following a heart operation. Adelmann was one of the most important figures in the European revival of the study of Cohen as an original philosopher and a Jewish thinker. Many of us are shaken by this loss. Dieter Adelmann's influence is evident in the work of many younger scholars. He was a natural teacher, a generous and learned man with an original and deep appreciation for the world from which Cohen hailed culturally, intellectually, and politically. Few others have been able to bring the legacy of Cohen's thought to life as Adelmann was able to do. We will miss him as an interlocutor and an inspiration. Our love and sympathy is with his children and friends.
9/6/08
Review of New Literature on Hermann Cohen
Michael Zank reviews Francesca Albertini, Das Verständnis des Seins bei Hermann Cohen: Vom Neukantianismus zu einer jüdischen Religionsphilosophie (Würzburg 2003) and Andrea Poma, Yearning for Form and Other Essays on Hermann Cohen's Thought (Dordrecht 2006) in The Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. 98, No. 4 (Fall 2008) 566-573.
6/12/08
Panels on Neo-Kantianism at the seventh congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS)
The conference took place at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., June 18-21, 2008. For the full conference program, click here.
The Natural and the Neo-Kantian:
Empirical Science and Neo-Kantianism
Chair: Alex Klein
In What Ways Was Helmholtz Kantian?
Gary Hatfield, University of Pennsylvania
Empirical Psychology, Physiology, and the A Priori
Lydia Patton, Virginia Tech
Empirical Psychology and Marburg School Neo-Kantianism on the Object of Psychology
Scott Edgar, Bryn Mawr College
Function and Symbol in Marburg Philosophy of Science
Alan Kim, Hamilton College
Cassirer on Logic, Mathematics, and Science
Chair: Scott Edgar
"Critical philosophy begins at the very point where logistic leaves off":
Cassirer’s response to Frege and Russell
Jeremy Heis, University of California at Irvine
Cassirer and Dedekind: On the significance of structural mathematics
Erich Reck, University of California at Riverside
The Natural and the Neo-Kantian:
Empirical Science and Neo-Kantianism
Chair: Alex Klein
In What Ways Was Helmholtz Kantian?
Gary Hatfield, University of Pennsylvania
Empirical Psychology, Physiology, and the A Priori
Lydia Patton, Virginia Tech
Empirical Psychology and Marburg School Neo-Kantianism on the Object of Psychology
Scott Edgar, Bryn Mawr College
Function and Symbol in Marburg Philosophy of Science
Alan Kim, Hamilton College
Cassirer on Logic, Mathematics, and Science
Chair: Scott Edgar
"Critical philosophy begins at the very point where logistic leaves off":
Cassirer’s response to Frege and Russell
Jeremy Heis, University of California at Irvine
Cassirer and Dedekind: On the significance of structural mathematics
Erich Reck, University of California at Riverside
Conference: Hermann Cohen and the Graphic Arts
International conference of the Hermann Cohen-Gesellschaft (Zürich), in cooperation with the Cohen-Gesellschaft (Coswig, Anhalt) and the Max Liebermann- Gesellschaft (Berlin). The conference took place from June 15-18, 2008 in Coswig (Anhalt).
Speakers include:
Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. HELMUT HOLZHEY (Zürich)
"Zum Verhältnis der Ästhetik des reinen Gefühls zu Kants Begründung der Ästhetik"
Prof. Dr. MYRIAM BIENENSTOCK (Tours/Paris)
"Über die Ironie der Kunst: Cohen und Solger"
Prof. Dr. STEFAN NACHTSHEIM (Aachen)
"Der zeitgenössische theoretische Kontext von Cohens Ästhetik"
Dr. LYDIA PATTON (Blacksburg, USA)
"Humor, the Beautiful, and the Ethical Ideal: Hermann Cohen and Kant on Portraiture"
Dr. DIETER ADELMANN (Bonn)
"Hermann Cohens Theorie der Landschaftsmalerei"
For the full program click here.
Speakers include:
Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. HELMUT HOLZHEY (Zürich)
"Zum Verhältnis der Ästhetik des reinen Gefühls zu Kants Begründung der Ästhetik"
Prof. Dr. MYRIAM BIENENSTOCK (Tours/Paris)
"Über die Ironie der Kunst: Cohen und Solger"
Prof. Dr. STEFAN NACHTSHEIM (Aachen)
"Der zeitgenössische theoretische Kontext von Cohens Ästhetik"
Dr. LYDIA PATTON (Blacksburg, USA)
"Humor, the Beautiful, and the Ethical Ideal: Hermann Cohen and Kant on Portraiture"
Dr. DIETER ADELMANN (Bonn)
"Hermann Cohens Theorie der Landschaftsmalerei"
For the full program click here.
11/14/07
CFP: Hermann Cohen and the Visual Arts
Meeting of the Hermann Cohen Society in cooperation with the Max Liebermann Society (Berlin) and the Cohen Society (Coswig)
from the 15th to the 18th of June 2008 in Coswig (Anhalt)
The focus of the conference is Hermann Cohen’s relationship to the visual arts. Systematic interpretations of Cohen’s aesthetics are welcome, not least those that deal with the consequences of Cohen’s theory for contemporary debates. In addition, we welcome biographical or historical studies that put Cohen in the context of the aesthetic and artistic movements of his time.
Contributions in English and German are welcome. Scholars interested in submitting a paper are warmly invited to send a title and a short abstract of up to 300 words to the following address:
Dr. Hartwig Wiedebach,
Martin Buber-Professur für jüdische Religionsphilosophie
J. W. Goethe-Universität
FB Ev. Theologie
Grüneburgplatz 1, Raum BL-7
60323 Frankfurt/M., Germany
wiedebach@freenet.de
Original (German) version of the call for papers is here: http://www.hermann-cohen-gesellschaft.org/deutsch/veranst.htm
from the 15th to the 18th of June 2008 in Coswig (Anhalt)
The focus of the conference is Hermann Cohen’s relationship to the visual arts. Systematic interpretations of Cohen’s aesthetics are welcome, not least those that deal with the consequences of Cohen’s theory for contemporary debates. In addition, we welcome biographical or historical studies that put Cohen in the context of the aesthetic and artistic movements of his time.
Contributions in English and German are welcome. Scholars interested in submitting a paper are warmly invited to send a title and a short abstract of up to 300 words to the following address:
Dr. Hartwig Wiedebach,
Martin Buber-Professur für jüdische Religionsphilosophie
J. W. Goethe-Universität
FB Ev. Theologie
Grüneburgplatz 1, Raum BL-7
60323 Frankfurt/M., Germany
wiedebach@freenet.de
Original (German) version of the call for papers is here: http://www.hermann-cohen-gesellschaft.org/deutsch/veranst.htm
8/22/07
Reviews of new books on Hermann Cohen
Review of Hermann Cohen’s Critical Idealism, edited by Reinier Munk, Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Thought Volume 10, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer Verlag, 2005, and Andrea Poma, Yearning For Form and Other Essays on Hermann Cohen’s Thought, edited by Reinier Munk, Studies in German Idealism Volume 5, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer Verlag, 2006, by Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech).
Forthcoming in the European Journal of Philosophy.
Click here for the full text of the review
“New Literature on Hermann Cohen,” a review of Francesca Albertini, Das Verständnis des Seins bei Hermann Cohen. Vom Neukantianismus zu einer jüdischen Religionsphilosophie (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2003) and Andrea Poma, Yearning For Form and Other Essays on Hermann Cohen’s Thought (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006), by Michael Zank (Boston University).
Forthcoming in Jewish Quarterly Review.
Click here for the full text of the review
Forthcoming in the European Journal of Philosophy.
Click here for the full text of the review
“New Literature on Hermann Cohen,” a review of Francesca Albertini, Das Verständnis des Seins bei Hermann Cohen. Vom Neukantianismus zu einer jüdischen Religionsphilosophie (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2003) and Andrea Poma, Yearning For Form and Other Essays on Hermann Cohen’s Thought (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006), by Michael Zank (Boston University).
Forthcoming in Jewish Quarterly Review.
Click here for the full text of the review
8/12/07
Marburg in Russia
Russian Neo-Kantianism: Marburg in Russia. Historical-philosophical sketches.
Moscow, 2007 (ISBN 978-5-8243-0835-8) 511 pp., in Russian, with a table of contents and a six page summary in German; including also an appendix of letters, an extensive bibliography, and twelve pages of photographic images between text pages 256 and 257. By Nina Dmitrieva. Review by Michael Zank.
The beginning of the review:
"Based on meticulous archival research, Nina Dmitrieva’s monograph documents the intellectual biographies of a group of hitherto neglected Russian philosophers whose work constituted an alternative to the materialism that, for most of the 20th century, was the dominant philosophical doctrine of Stalinist Russia. It so happens that many of these thinkers received their training in Marburg, Germany, a place that in the first decades of the 20th century was a Mecca for philosophically inclined youths from across Europe and the US, among them such well-known figures as Ortega y Gasset, Karl Barth, Rudolf Bultmann, T.S. Eliot, and Boris Pasternak. Whereas critical idealism was obliterated in Marburg after Heidegger replaced Paul Natorp in 1924, the Russian reception of Marburg neo-Kantianism was profound and of lasting import, as Dmitrieva documents."
Click here for the full text of the review
Click here for Dmitrieva's brief summary of the work (English)
Moscow, 2007 (ISBN 978-5-8243-0835-8) 511 pp., in Russian, with a table of contents and a six page summary in German; including also an appendix of letters, an extensive bibliography, and twelve pages of photographic images between text pages 256 and 257. By Nina Dmitrieva. Review by Michael Zank.
The beginning of the review:
"Based on meticulous archival research, Nina Dmitrieva’s monograph documents the intellectual biographies of a group of hitherto neglected Russian philosophers whose work constituted an alternative to the materialism that, for most of the 20th century, was the dominant philosophical doctrine of Stalinist Russia. It so happens that many of these thinkers received their training in Marburg, Germany, a place that in the first decades of the 20th century was a Mecca for philosophically inclined youths from across Europe and the US, among them such well-known figures as Ortega y Gasset, Karl Barth, Rudolf Bultmann, T.S. Eliot, and Boris Pasternak. Whereas critical idealism was obliterated in Marburg after Heidegger replaced Paul Natorp in 1924, the Russian reception of Marburg neo-Kantianism was profound and of lasting import, as Dmitrieva documents."
Click here for the full text of the review
Click here for Dmitrieva's brief summary of the work (English)
4/30/07
Ethik des reinen Willens
The ethics of Hermann Cohen were the topic of a conference held at the University of Toronto, in 2001. The proceedings of this conference are now available in form of a thematic issue of the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy (volume 13, numbers 1-3, 2004), guest edited by Robert Gibbs.
See http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/gjtp/2004/00000013/f0030001.
See http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/gjtp/2004/00000013/f0030001.
Hermann Cohen: The Werke Edition
The writings of Hermann Cohen are now available in a critical edition published by Olms Verlag and edited under the auspices of the Hermann Cohen Archive in Zürich.
For a review see EAJS Newsletter, vol. 16, Spring 2005, on-line at http://www.lzz.uni-halle.de/publikationen/essays/nl16_zank.pdf.
For a review see EAJS Newsletter, vol. 16, Spring 2005, on-line at http://www.lzz.uni-halle.de/publikationen/essays/nl16_zank.pdf.
Friedman and Nordmann, eds., The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth Century Science
A sorely needed collection of essays by the most able scholars in the field. With contributed essays on the Marburg School from Alan Richardson, Michael Heidelberger, and Alfred Nordmann. Essays by Janet Folina and Robert di Salle focus on the intriguing relationship between Kantianism and conventionalism, a topic that is receiving increasing attention.
For a full review of the collection from Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=9283
For a full review of the collection from Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=9283
4/26/07
Panels at the Chicago American Philosophical Association
SESSION ONE: “KARL JASPERS SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA AND THE INTERNATIONAL HERMANN COHEN SOCIETY”
Chair: Michael Zank (Boston University)
Speakers: Hartwig Wiedebach (University of Zurich, Stuttgart Media University)
“Pure Will versus Causality in Hermann Cohen”
Lydia Patton (University of Chicago)
“Ideas in History, Ideas in Opposition: Hermann Cohen and Völkerpsychologie”
SESSION TWO: “KARL JASPERS SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA AND THE INTERNATIONAL HERMANN COHEN SOCIETY”
Chair: Michael Zank (Boston University)
Speakers: James Barham (University of Notre Dame)
“Ernst Cassirer’s Metaphysics of Life”
Timothy Gordon (Bakersfield College)
“The 19th Century and Jesus Christ: Non-Normative Absolutism”
Armin Wildermuth (University of St. Gallen)
“Karl Jaspers’ Philosophic Faith and the Clash of Civilizations”
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