{"id":172,"date":"2013-01-14T11:02:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T15:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/?p=172"},"modified":"2013-01-14T11:29:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T15:29:43","slug":"january-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/2013\/01\/14\/january-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new semester begins today. I am offering two courses: CASRN339 The Modern Jew, a course in the Other Within<\/a> series; and CASRN797 Philosophical and Theological Approaches to Religion, a required core course for the Division of Religious and Theological Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In other news, I am looking forward to taking on the directorship of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies<\/a> in July, for a three-year term.<\/p>\n

A few highlights from last year:<\/p>\n

Dana Hollander and her colleagues hosted me as the Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Religion, McMaster University, Hamilton\/Ontario, October 22-25, 2012, where I lectured on the state of the field of philosophy of religion and gave a public talk on how Jerusalem obtained the status of an extraordinary holy city. The highlight was a guest lecture, in one of Dana’s seminars, on the Rosenzweig-Rosenstock correspondence of 1916, about which I had written my Examensarbeit in Heidelberg in 1986. (Thanks, Dana! It was fun.)<\/p>\n

At the International Rosenzweig Society Congress, University of Toronto, Sept 3, 2012, I spoke on \u201cIs Cohen the Enemy? Reflections Apropos Mark Lilla\u2019s A Stillborn God.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last summer I had the pleasure of lecturing in Frankfurt and Halle, namely.<\/p>\n

\u201cZwischen Religionswissenschaft und \u00bbAufbau im Untergang\u00ab \u2013 Martin Buber vor und nach der unbefristeten Beurlaubung 1933\u201d at International Conference on \u201cScholarship in Times of Political Radicalisation: Jews, Nationalists, and Others at the University of Frankfurt in the First Part of the 20th Century,\u201d Goethe University Frankfurt, June 27, 2012.<\/p>\n

\u201cWissenschaft als Widerstand: Martin Buber \u00fcber Bildung und die Bibel\u201d Seminar and guest lecture in series on J\u00fcdisches Denken in Frankfurt: Das Freie J\u00fcdische Lehrhaus 1920-1938<\/em>, under the auspices of the Martin Buber Professorship for Jewish Philosophy of Religion at Goethe University, Frankfurt\/Main (Germany), May 9, 2012. Also at Martin-Luther-Universit\u00e4t Halle-Wittenberg, Seminar f\u00fcr J\u00fcdische Studien, Halle (Germany), May 7, 2012.<\/p>\n

Articles and book chapters that came out last year:<\/p>\n

\u201cJustice\u201d in The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: The Modern Era<\/em>, edited by Martin Kavka, Zachary Braiterman, and David Novak (Cambridge, New York, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 704-738.<\/p>\n

\u201cStrauss, Schmitt, and Peterson: Comparative Contours of the \u2018Theological Political Predicament\u2019\u201d in German-Jewish Thought Between Religion and Politics. FS Mendes Flohr, <\/em>ed. Martina Urban and Christian Wiese (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2012), pp. 317-333.<\/p>\n

\u201cJasper\u2019s Achsenzeit<\/em> Hypothesis: A Critical Reappraisal\u201d 30th<\/sup>-Anniversary Festschrift for the Karl Jaspers Society of North America, Philosophical Faith and the Future of Humanity<\/em>, ed. Alan Olson, Greg Walters, and Helmut Wautischer (Amsterdam: Springer Verlag, 2012), pp. 189-202.<\/p>\n

(With Thomas Meyer), \u201cMore Early Writings by Leo Strauss from the J\u00fcdische Wochenzeitung f\u00fcr Cassel, Hessen und Waldeck <\/em>(1925\u20131928)\u201d in Interpretation <\/em>39\/11, Spring-Summer 2012, pp. 109-137.<\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

(With Hartwig Wiedebach), \u201cThe Kant-Maimonides Constellation\u201d JJTP <\/em>20.2 (2012), 135-145.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Heteronomy of Modern Jewish Philosophy\u201d in JJTP<\/em> 20.1 (2012), 99-134.<\/p>\n

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