The Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of Philosophy

at the University of Wisconsin at Madison present

A Conference on

Spinoza and Judaism

October 7-10, 1999

 

Thursday, October 7
2:00-3:15 Tamar Rudavsky (Ohio State University), "Galileo and Spinoza: Heresy and Hermeneutics"
3:30-4:45 Jonathan Israel (University College London), "The Jewish Reception of Spinoza's Philosophy"
5:00-6:15 Lenn Goodman (Vanderbilt University), "An Idea is Not Mute Like a Picture on a Pad"
 
Friday, October 8
9:00-10:15 Steven Smith (Yale University), "Spinoza's Critique of Election, or What is Chosen About the Chosen People?"
10:30-11:45 Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin), "Spinoza in the Garden of Good and Evil"
2:00-3:15 Paul Eisenberg (Indiana University), "Spinoza, Nietzsche and the Jews: The Jew and the ëAnti-Semite'".
3:30-4:45 Allan Nadler (Drew University), "Heretic and Hero: Spinoza in the Yiddish Imagination"
 
Saturday, October 9
1:00-2:15 David Katz (Tel Aviv University), "Matthew Arnold, the Victorian Spinoza, and the Jews"
2:30-3:45 Edwin Curley (University of Michigan), "Spinoza, Liberalism and Jewish Identity"
4:00-5:15 Daniel Garber (University of Chicago), "Spinoza and the Idea of Secular Knowledge"
 
Sunday, October 10
9:30-10:45 Arnold Eisen (Stanford University), "The (Ir)Relevance of Spinoza to Contemporary Jewish Thought"
11:00-12:15 Michael Morgan (Indiana University), "Toleration: Spinoza, Locke, Mendelssohn"
 

All meetings will be in 6191 Helen C. White Hall, on the campus of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

 

 
For more information, contact Steven Nadler
Dept. of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin at Madison,
5185 Helen C. White Hall, Madison, WI 53706, (608)263-3741, smnadler@facstaff.wisc.edu
 
 

This conference is made possible by a grant from the Anonymous Fund of the College of Letters and Sciences,

University of Wisconsin at Madison.

 

 

For accomodations, please call any of the following hotels:

back to AANS home page
back to Dutch program home page
back to Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor's home page

Contact jvtaylor to report any problems with this page

Page last updated September 5, 1999.

University of Wisconsin-Madison