A New Books in Jewish Studies Podcast: Hermann Cohen An Intellectual Biography. With Author Frederick Beiser Hosted by Avi Bernstein-Nahar The New Books Network · Jan 6, 2020 In the course of this NBN conversation, Frederick Beiser and Avi Bernstein-Nahar discuss Hermann Cohen’s lifelong quest for a “religion of reason;” his effort to “rescue” Kant from psychologists who had misunderstood him; hostility to Spinoza; interest in the science and math of infinitesimally small quantities; left-of-center Wilhelmine politics; his system of philosophy; his unrequited love affair with German culture; and his ontological argumentation for God. Cohen’s posthumously published Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism is left largely … [Read more...] about Podcast: Hermann Cohen–An Intellectual Biography
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