FALL 2024 COURSES
- Religion and Politics
(SCAR 3CC3 / Political Science 2LA3, for undergraduates; advance syllabus here). - Race, Religion, and Coloniality
(SCAR 3RC3, for undergraduate students; advance syllabus here).
I will be on research leave during the Winter 2025 term.
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NEWS & EVENTS
Ethics Out of Law: Hermann Cohen and the "Neighbor" (University of Toronto Press, 2021)
Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) was a leading figure in the Neo-Kantian philosophical movement that dominated European thought before 1918. He was also an inaugural figure in modern Jewish philosophy. This book explores Cohen's striking claim that ethics is rooted in law - a claim developed in both his philosophical ethics and his philosophy of Judaism, in particular in his writings on "love-of-neighbor," up to and including his well-known Religion of Reason.
Reviews:
- Jeffrey Bernstein, for H-Judaic, August 2022
- Shira Billet, in AJS Review 47, no. 1 (April 2023)
- Myriam Bienenstock, in Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger 148 (2023), no. 2
- Michael Zank in Journal of Religion 103, no. 4 (July 2024)
- At the Annual Conference of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association (MJSA), October 29-30, 2023, in Toronto, I presenteded a paper titled: "Framings of Jewish Legal Knowledge Circa 1900: The Scholarship of Mordché Wolf Rapaport"
- At the Seminar in Modern Jewish Thought, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (online) on November 29, 2023, I discussed my book Ethics Out of Law. Hermann Cohen and the 'Neighbor'"
From January to April 2023, I was at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, part of a cohort of fellows researching "Jews and Modern Legal Culture."
