DANA HOLLANDER
Associate
Professor, Department
of Religious Studies
Member, MA
Program in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory Associate
Member, Department
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2023-2024 COURSES
FALL (September-December)
https://religiousstudies.mcmaster.ca/graduate/jewish-studies
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.
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From January to April, 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."
2022:
I gave a lecture at CECILLE (Centre d’Études en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères), at Université de Lille, where I also took part in the Kick-Off Workshop for the project "Jewish Thought between Germany and France: New Horizons for the Study of Contemporary European Jewish Thought" (2022)
I participated in an online roundtable discussion, hosted by the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University, presenting the “Critical Edition” that Peter Fenves and Julia Ng produced of Walter Benjamin’s famous “Critique of Violence” essay (Stanford UP, 2021), which includes a small selection I translated from Hermann Cohen's Ethics of Pure Will (2022). If you find broken links on any of my pages, please let me know! last updated
September 28, 2023
McMaster University
(SCAR 4SC3, for undergraduates; advance syllabus here).
(SCAR 2J03, for undergraduate students; advance syllabus here).
WINTER (January-April)
(SCAR 2LL3, for undergraduates)
(Religious Studies 790, for graduate students)Web page detailing the resources my Department offers for PhD/MA-level study of Jews and Judaism:
2023: