The essays assembled here represent the leading Hermann Cohen scholars from the United States, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, and Israel. Emerging from their efforts is a new set of explorations both in Cohen’s own system and also in his relation to a wide-range of subsequent thinkers. They open Cohen’s Ethics of Pure Will in two ways. First, they show us the deep questions that are operating within Cohen’s texts, and second they raise questions for ethics itself, particularly in relation to Jewish tradition. That specific topic, the primacy of ethics for Judaism, received one of its most philosophically rigorous treatments in Cohen’s work, where thinking of the relation of ethics and Judaism became a truly philosophical task.Originally published as Volume 13 (2005) of The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy.
Author(s): Robert Gibbs, Giuseppe Veltri
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 264
CONTENTS......Page 6
PREFACE HERMANN COHEN’S ETHICS --- Robert Gibbs......Page 8
THE ETHICS IN HERMANN COHEN’S PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEM --- Michael Zank......Page 14
ETHIK ALS LEHRE VOM MENSCHEN EINE EINFÜHRUNG IN HERMANN COHENS ETHIK DES REINEN WILLENS --- Helmut Holzhey......Page 30
JUDAISM AS A “METHOD” WITH HERMANN COHEN AND FRANZ ROSENZWEIG --- Gesine Palmer......Page 50
THE EXISTENCE OF THE IDEAL IN HERMANN COHEN’S ETHICS --- Andrea Poma......Page 78
PHYSIOLOGY OF THE PURE WILL: CONCEPTS OF MORAL ENERGY IN HERMANN COHEN’S ETHICS --- Hartwig Wiedebach......Page 98
ON THE IDEA OF GOD IN COHEN’S ETHIK --- Reinier Munk......Page 118
HERMANN COHEN. ETHICS OF MAIMONIDES: RESIDUES OF JEWISH PHILOSOPHY—TRAUMATIZED --- Almut Sh. Bruckstein......Page 128
THE TIES BETWEEN WALTER BENJAMIN AND HERMANN COHEN: A GENERALLY NEGLECTED CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF THE IMPACT OF COHEN’S PHILOSOPHY --- Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky......Page 140
IN THE NAME OF A NARRATIVE EDUCATION: HERMANN COHEN AND HISTORICISM RECONSIDERED --- Avi Bernstein-Nahar......Page 160
HERMANN COHEN AND LEO STRAUSS --- Leora Batnitzky......Page 200
HERMANN COHEN AND RABBI JOSEPH SOLOVEITCHIK ON REPENTANCE --- Lawrence Kaplan......Page 226
INDEX......Page 272
