Course

The 2026 Franz Rosenzweig Academy, hosted by the Goethe Institut — Boston

with special thanks to the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies for their financial support in Summer 2025

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The Summer 2025 Academy was described as follows:

Grapple in a highly collaborative environment with Franz Rosenzweig’s Hegel and the State, building the skills and understanding to interpret an author many consider to be the preeminent Jewish theorist of the modern era. We will ask whether and in what fashion Rosenzweig’s Hegel book helped position him, as he had hoped, to be the natural successor to Hermann Cohen, and we will confront perhaps the most pressing set of issues of our contemporary moment: the nature of the nation-state, its legitimacy, and the rights, roles, and obligations of its citizens.

Avi Bernstein-Nahar is one of those rare scholar-teachers whose mind ranges almost as widely as Rosenzweig’s subject matter:  Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, but also Genesis, Exodus, Song of Songs; Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and Robert Pippin, but also Antigone, King Lear, and Crime and Punishment; and hovering above all these, Hermann Cohen, whose ‘Marburg’ style of doing philosophical theology so antagonized and inspired Rosenzweig. — Rabbi Stephen Segar, Cleveland, Ohio

Image: Franz Rosenzweig via Wiki Commons