Conference "Cassirer versus Heidegger. Before, during and after Davos" (Dr. Jeffrey Barash)

We present the XXV conference of the Lecture Cycle of the Moses Mendelssohn Free Chair of Jewish Studies, "Cassirer versus Heidegger. Before, during and after Davos" by Dr. Jeffrey Barash (Université de Picardie Jules Verne), held on November 28 2021. The conference was given in English and had simultaneous translation into Spanish. Here we share the english version.

RESUME

The conference reconstructs the famous 1929 debate between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger in Davos, which marked the history of 20th century philosophy, from a somewhat unusual perspective: its theological and political horizon. The different attitudes of these thinkers regarding theology are evaluated and, in particular, it focuses on the hitherto little revealed incidences of Protestant thought -Karl Barth, Rudolf Bultmann, Friedrich Gogarten- in Cassirer's philosophical enterprise and the way in which these incidents have marked different crucial moments within the complex relationship between him and Heidegger. In this regard, a humanist orientation is identified in Cassirer's philosophical course that, pointing against the doctrine of the fall and human finitude in Luther and Calvin, destabilizes any political decisionism.

SPEAKER

Jeffrey Andrew Barash is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Amiens in France. He is the author or editor of many books, including Martin Heidegger and the Problem of Historical Meaning and The Social Construction of Reality: The Legacy of Ernst Cassirer, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.

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