Dana Hollander, McMaster University

DANA HOLLANDER

Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies

Member, MA Program in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory

Associate Member, Department of Philosophy

McMaster University


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2023-2024 COURSES

FALL (September-December)

  • Society, Culture & Religion Seminar
    (SCAR 4SC3, for undergraduates; advance syllabus here).
  • Introduction to Judaism
    (SCAR 2J03, for undergraduate students; advance syllabus here).

WINTER (January-April)
  • God and Philosophy
    (SCAR 2LL3, for undergraduates)
  • Race, Religion, Coloniality
    (Religious Studies 790, for graduate students)

Web page detailing the resources my Department offers for PhD/MA-level study of Jews and Judaism:

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.

Reviews:

  • Jeffrey Bernstein, for H-Judaic, August 2022
  • Shira Billet, in AJS Review, vol. 47, no. 1 (April 2023)
  • Myriam Bienenstock, in Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger 148 (2023), no. 2


2023:

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 took part in the “Talmud and Contemporary Thought” Workshop (Theme: "Politics of Not Speaking") co-organized by the Berlin Center for Intellectual Diaspora and the University of Antwerp, in Antwerp (October)

The Society for Contemporary Jewish Philosophy hosted an online panel on my book (2022). (click for full-size poster)




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last updated September 28, 2023