Learning objectives
Direct acquaintance with one or more works of the philosophical tradition. Comprehension and contextualization of each work in its theoretical and historical dimensions. Development of ability to analyze and critically understand philosophical texts, and in particular to identify and evaluate argumentations, through guided reading and discussion of the work/s, or by individual study of the work/s.
Prerequisites
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Course unit content
The relationship between revelation and tradition in Gershom Scholem's religious anarchism
Full programme
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Bibliography
G. Scholem, On Jonah and the Concept of Justice
G. Scholem, Offener Brief an den Verfasser der Schrift Jüdischer Glaube an dieser Zeit
G. Scholem, Revelation and Tradition as Religious Categories in Judaism
G. Scholem, Reflections on the Possibility of Mysticism in our Time
G. Scholem, Reflections on Jewish Theology
The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem 1932-1940
Stéphane Mosès, Gershom Scholem's Reading of Kafka: Literary Criticism and Kabbalah
Teaching methods
Taught lectures; readings of key texts
Assessment methods and criteria
Final oral examination
Other information
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