SOCIALITY IN MODERN JEWISH PHILOSOPHY AND GERMAN IDEALISM June 6—June 9, 2021 A conference organized by Shira Billet & Paul Franks The year 2021 stands at the midpoint of several centenary years of groundbreaking works of modern Jewish philosophy that marked the moment when the intersubjecve relaonship between the self and the other and its parallel divine‐human relaonship, arguably the centerpiece of tweneth‐century Jewish philosophy, first emerged in that field, with Cohen’s Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism (1919), Rosenzweig’s The Star of Redempon (1921), and Buber’s I and Thou (1923). The year 2021 is an ideal moment to reexamine that tradion, and to consider its debt to and crique of philosophical uses of sociality in the German Idealist tradion. The conference aims both to expand the canon of modern Jewish philosophy and to expand the discussion of sociality in both modern Jewish philosophy and German Idealism beyond the dominance of the intersubjecve dyad. _______________________________________________ Sunday, June 6 Monday, June 7 Tuesday, June 8 Wednesday, June 9 10:00AM 10:20AM 10:00AM 10:15AM Introduction to Conference Introductory Remarks Reflections & Discussion Introductory Remarks Paul Franks (Yale) 10:30AM—12:00PM Molly Farneth (Haverford) 10:20AM—11:50AM Comment on Moritz Daniel Oppenheim’s Panel #2: Ethics and Human Sociality Alex Ozar (Yale) Panel #7: New Dimensions of Sociality “Die Heimkehr des Freiwilligen ” in Mendelssohn 10:40AM—KEYNOTE in Buber (conference image) Chair: David Sorkin (Yale) Chair: Hugo Havranek (Yale) Chair: Shira Billet (Yale) Shira Billet (Yale) “Transcending Intersubjectivity: KEYNOTE LECTURE: “A Religious Sensibility: Neo‐ Welcoming Remarks Mendelssohn’s Non‐reciprocal view of Michelle Kosch (Johns Hopkins) Kananism in Buber’s Interpretaon Maurice Samuels (Yale) Human Sociality” “Recognion aer Fichte” of Judaism” Yuval Kremnitzer (Hebrew) Response: Frederick C. Beiser (Syracuse) William Plevan (Gratz) 10:25AM—KEYNOTE “‘A Dead Weight on the Intellect’s Wings’: 12:05PM—BREAK “The ‘Exemplary It’: A New Chair: Samuel Moyn (Yale) Deontology and Virtue in Mendelssohn, Understanding of Sociality in KEYNOTE LECTURE: and Contemporary Moral Challenges” 12:30PM—2:00PM I and Thou” Michael L. Morgan (Indiana) Sarah Zager (Yale) Panel #5: Conversaon and Evyatar Varman (Hebrew) “The Second‐Person and Twentieth Century Communicability in Rosenzweig Jewish Philosophy: Between Continental and 12:05PM—1:35PM Chair: Nancy Levene (Yale) 11:55AM—1:25PM Analytic Philosophy.” Panel #3: Sociality in Hermann Cohen “‘The Conversaon of Humanity’: Panel #8: Sociality and Crical Theory Response: Vivian Liska (Antwerp) Chair: Jordan Katz (Yale) Rosenzweig on the Secret(s) of Chair: Paul North (Yale) “To Think the Other as You: the Rationalistic “Challenging the Sociality of Reason: 12:00PM—BREAK Biblical Narrave” Notion of Dialogue and Sociality in Hermann Benjamin Pollock (Hebrew) An Encounter between the New 12:30PM Cohen's Ethics of Pure Will” “Not good enough. Communicability, Jewish Hegel and Adorno’s Introductions Roy Amir (Potsdam) Intersubjecvity and Art in Hegel Negave Dialeccs” “An Academic Center of One's Own: Identity Randi L. Rashkover (William & Mary) 1:00PM—3:00PM and Rosenzweig” Formation and Minority Culture in Hermann Antonios Kalatzis (Humbolt) “Producve Exchange: Re‐Integrang Panel #1: Beyond the Western European Cohen and Ibrahim Kendi” the Sociality of Money into the Canon Mark Kaplowitz (Christian Brothers) 2:00PM—3:30PM Narrave of Modern Jewish Thought” Chair: Marci Shore (Yale) 1:35PM—BREAK Panel #6: Beyond Human Sociality: Samuel Hayim Brody (Kansas) “The Forgotten Branch: Jewish Philosophy An‐Sociality, and Sociality Outside and German Idealism in Eastern Europe” 2:00PM—3:30PM the Human Realm 1:25PM—BREAK Isaac Slater (Hamburg) Panel #4: Sociality in Theology & Politics Chair: Eliyahu Stern (Yale) 1:50PM “‘God Appears as an Adjective, Not a Noun’: in Rosenzweig “Sociality as opposed to what? Reflecons & Discussion Nachman Krochmal, German Idealism, Chair: Karin Nisenbaum (Boston) Rosenzweig and An‐/Sociality” Yonatan Y. Brafman (Tus) and the Jewish Body Politic” “Subjectivity as Intersubjectivity and Human Larisa Reznik (Pomona) Elias R. Sacks (Colorado‐Boulder) Love as Divine Love: Franz Rosenzweig’s The 3:00PM “Dialogue without words, sociality Farewell! “Between Nietzsche and R. Kook: A Self‐ Star of Redemption and the Post‐Kantian without humans: Marn Buber affirming Theory of Divine‐human Theological Return to Luther” talks to things” Relationship” Daniel M. Herskowitz (Wolfson, Oxford) Dusn Atlas (Queen’s) Ghila Amati (Oxford) “The Neo‐Kantian dimension of Jewish Theocracy” Itamar Ben‐Ami (Hebrew) This Conference is free and open to the public Registraon is required https://yale.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIuc-qprzgpEtau3fbcmyZyeVypsKSIKny1 Sponsored by—Yale University Program in Judaic Studies This Conference was made possible by the Sidney & Arthur Eder Fund .