DANA HOLLANDERAssociate
Professor Member, MA Program in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory Associate
Member, Department
of Philosophy
Research and Supervisory Interests. My primary research areas are Modern Jewish Thought, 20th-century French and German Philosophy (especially the phenomenological tradition), and German-Jewish History and Culture. My book Exemplarity and Chosenness (2008) is a combined study of Jacques Derrida’s philosophy from his earliest writings on Husserl to his considerations of “philosophical nationality” during the 1980s to his later writings on ethico-politico-religious themes, and of Franz Rosenzweig’s philosophy of Judaism, especially his theory of election and messianism. My current SSHRC-sponsored research project is on ethics, law, and “the neighbor” in the works of the German-Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen. My graduate seminars are designed to introduce students to core figures in modern Jewish thought and in continental philosophy and religious thought, including Mendelssohn, Husserl, Heidegger, Cohen, Rosenzweig, Strauss, Levinas, and Derrida, and their receptions. Partly thanks to my appointment as a Canada Research Chair in Modern Jewish Thought during 2003-8, I have been working to enhance the profile of this area of study and research, as well as foster work in modern Judaism more broadly, at McMaster. Curriculum Vitae If you find broken links on any of my pages, please let me know! updated April 17, 2012
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Announcements / Events / Links
Society for Continental Philosophy in a Jewish Context (CPJC) Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy Workshop Jacob Taubes, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (Berlin), February 21-22, 2011Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy Please address editorial inquiries to the current Managing Editor, Robert Erlewine.
Conference: "Jewish Philosophy: Past Approaches, New Directions." McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario) and King’s University College (London, Ontario), April 20–22, 2009. Colloquium: "'A Covenant to the People, A Light to the Nations.' Universalism, Exceptionalism and the Problem of Chosenness in Jewish Thought" (May 2005): jewishthought.mcmaster.ca. Special Issue of Jewish Studies Quarterly (vol. 16, no. 1 [March 2009], co-edited with Joel Kaminsky Journal of Textual Reasoning. Special Issue: "The Ethics of the Neighbor" (November 2005) Jacob Taubes, The Political Theology of Paul (Stanford UP, 2004) |
CURRENT COURSES
PAST COURSES TAUGHT AT MCMASTER:
RS 3A03 / Philosophy 3J03 - Modern Jewish Thought Fall 2004 | Fall 2005
RS 3D03 - God, Reason, and Evil Winter 2003 | Fall 2005
RS 3MM3 - Skepticism, Atheism, and Faith Fall 2002 | Fall 2007
RS 4N03 - Topics in Western Thought: Spinoza, Kant, Mendelssohn (Fall 2006)
RS 792 - The (Theo-)Political: Recent Continental Approaches (Fall 2008)
RS 777 - Topics in Philosophy and Jewish Thought: Creation Revelation Redemption (with Aaron Hughes; Winter 2008)
RS 792 - Topics in Continental Philosophy and Religious Thought: The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas (Fall 2007)
RS 777 (Crosslisted with Cultural Studies & Critical Theory 777): "Heidegger and Derrida" (Winter 2006)
RS 777 - Topics in Philosophy and Jewish Thought: The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas (Winter 2005)
RS 778 - Topics in Modern Jewish Thought Fall 2004 | Fall 2006
RS 787 - Selected Topics in Philosophy and Religion: "The Philosophy of Jacques Derrida" (Fall 2002)
Topics in 20th Century Continental Philosophy: Self, Other, and Community (Fall 2001)
Topics in European Philosophy: Derrida and Levinas (Spring 2002)
Self and Other: Phenomenological and Dialogical Approaches
19th Century Continental Philosophy
Selected Figures in Philosophy: Jacques Derrida
Selected Topics in Philosophy: Modern Jewish Thought
Modern Jewish Thought (WebCT course)