12mar10:00 am2:00 pmCANCELLED ! Research Seminar: Leo Strauss and Julius Guttmann

Event Details

Dr. Philipp von Wussow (Goethe University Frankfurt)

The seminar explores the ar gument between Leo Strauss and Julius Guttmann, two eminent figures of Jewish philosophy in the 20th century. Based on close readings of key sections of the respective texts – Guttmann’s Philosophie des Judentums (1933), Strauss’s criticism in the first ch apter of his Philosophie und Gesetz (1935), Guttmann’s reply to Strauss that was posthumously published in 1973, and a number of documents – the seminar will trace a conversation that brings to the light the historical and systematic presuppositions of Jew ish philosophy.

Time

(Thursday) 10:00 am - 2:00 pm(GMT+00:00)

Location

Room 665, 6th Floor, Education Building, University of Haifa