PD. Dr. Hartwig Wiedebach (ETH Zurich)

Hermann Cohen thought in terms of correlations after his great works on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (since 1871). Always central is the correlation between a fundamental singularity and the diversity of phenomena: in the knowledge of Nature, in political-ethical desire, in artistic feeling. Cohen’s Jewish philosophy is a translation of this thinking into religiosity: into a theory, for example, of the uniqueness of God or also a theory of liturgy in religious services. — We will read together short passages from Cohen’s systematic philosophy and from the “Religion of Reason Out of the Sources of Judaism.”

Hartwig Wiedebach teaches philosophy at the ETH Zurich and was director of the Hermann Cohen Archives.