Three pivotal terms- "refugee," "return," and "repatriation" - played an exceptionally significant role in shaping international planning and discourse after World War II. The Bard Graduate Center is located at 38 West 86 street, New York, NY, 10024.Ĥ:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Bard Graduate Center Lecture Hall, NYCĪrie M. I will show that through the mediation of Salomon Maimon (1753-1800) this bold notion was adopted from the school of the Maggid of Mezhrich and introduced into the systems of German Idealism.īard Graduate Center Lecture Hall, NYC 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 This paper argues that the most significant Jewish contribution to modern Western philosophy - the notion of acosmism, according to which only God truly and fully exists - originated in early Hassidism. If this argument is cogent, it would seem that much more attention should be paid to Spinoza’s early education.Īcosmism: Hassidism’s Gift to the Jews… and the Worldīard Graduate Center Lecture Hall, 38 West 86 street, New York, NY, 10024 It argues that Spinoza is frequently unaware of the formative role of his early Rabbinic education, and that he commonly reads the Bible through Rabbinic eyes without the least being conscious of this fact. This talk traces the influence of Spinoza’s early Rabbinic schooling on his writing from the period after he left the Jewish community. His research has been featured in BBC (The World Tonight), LeMond, Ha’aretz, Kan Tarbut (Israeli Cultural Radio). Currently, he is working on the completion of a book on Spinoza and German Idealism, and on an introduction to Spinoza’s philosophy. ![]() ![]() He works on Early Modern Philosophy, German Idealism, Medieval Philosophy, and some issues in contemporary metaphysics, and is the author of Spinoza’s Metaphysics: Substance and Thought (Oxford 2013), and Spinoza’s Labyrinths (Oxford, forthcoming). Melamed is the Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. Professor Yitzhak Melamed, Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University
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