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) |
