Conference: Critical Idealism and Messianism. From Hermann Cohen to Walter Benjamin and beyond

19-20 October 2015
Aula Matassi, Dipartimento di Filosofia, Comunicazione e Spettacolo, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Via Ostiense 234, Roma

Conference:
Critical Idealism and Messianism. From Hermann Cohen to Walter Benjamin and beyond

Monday, October 19, 2015

9.30 Welcome and Greetings: Paolo D’Angelo, Reinier Munk

Chair: Reinier Munk
10.00 Tamara Tagliacozzo (Università di Roma Tre, Italy): Experience and Infinite Task. Walter Benjamin and Hermann Cohen
Coffee
11.00 Giacomo Marramao (Università di Roma Tre, Italy): Prophetische Erfahrung und messianische Konstellation: ein Vergleich zwischen Cohen und Benjamin
11.45 Jack Bemporad (Center for Interreligious Understanding, USA): The Topic of Suffering in the Midrash, as interpreted by Henry Slonimsky

12.30 Lunch

Chair: Andrea Poma
14.30 Damiano Roberi (Università di Torino, Italy): The Uncertainty of the Sphinx: Nature as Threshold in Benjamin’s Reflections
15.00 Peter Fenves (Northwestern University, USA): Toward Messianic Nature: Experience, Thought, Experiment in Cohen and Benjamin
Coffee
16.00 Roy Dar-Amir (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel): Aufgabe and Revolution: Thinking (about) History in Cohen and Benjamin
16.30 Renate Schindler (Berlin, Germany): Hermann Cohen im Konfliktfeld von Politik, Geschichte und Messianismus: Zur Aktualität der kulturphilosophischen und erkenntnislogischen Reichweite der Idee des ewigen Friedens
17.00 Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany): Critique of State Violence in Benjamin and Hermann Cohen

18.00 Mitgliederversammlung der Hermann-Cohen-Gesellschaft

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Chair: Irene Kajon
9.30 Ezio Gamba (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy): Messianism in Art. Jewish and Christian Religious Art in Cohen’s Thought
10.00 Iveta Leitane (Bonn University, visiting faculty, Germany/ Center for Judaic Studies, Riga, Latvia): Samuel Atlas (1889 - 1978) and the Modal Reinterpretation of Hermann Cohen’s Understanding of Messianism)
Coffee
10.45 Julia Ng (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK): Acts of Time: Cohen and Benjamin on Mathematics and History
11.30 Fabrizio Desideri (Università di Firenze, Italy): Messianica ratio. Affinities and Differences in Cohen and Benjamin's Messianic Rationalism

12.30 Lunch

Chair: Tamara Tagliacozzo
14.15 Irene Kajon (Sapienza - Università di Roma, Italy): Paradoxa in Messianic Idea. The Influence of Cohen on Scholem's Concept of Messianism
15.00 Bruno Moroncini (Università di Salerno, Italy): How to Write History? Messianism and Historiography in Walter Benjamin
Coffee
16.00 Reinier Munk (President of the HCG; VU Amsterdam, Netherlands): Benjamin’s Cohen

Participants: Daniela Angelucci, Luca Bertolino, Dario Gentili, Gianna Gigliotti, Paolo D’Angelo, Francesca Iannelli, Massimo Palma, Marco Piazza, Irene Abigail Piccinini, Mauro Ponzi, Rico Sneller, Elettra Stimilli, Paolo Vinci, Christian Wiese

Organizers:
Dipartimento di Filosofia, Comunicazione e Spettacolo, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze dell’Educazione, Università degli Studi di Torino (PRIN 2010-2011 “La riflessione morale di fronte al mind/body problem”)
Hermann-Cohen-Gesellschaft

Organizing Committee:
Tamara Tagliacozzo (Roma), Andrea Poma (Torino), Reinier Munk (Amsterdam), Irene Abigail Piccinini (Lecce)

Contact:
rome2015 [at] hermann-cohen-gesellschaft.org

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