The Rosenzweig Reading Circle

We warmly welcome project board member Prof. Benjamin Pollock to the Franz Rosenzweig Reading Circle. The circle gathers scholars and students interested in the works of German-Jewish philosopher, theologian, and translator Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929).

At the May meeting, Prof. Pollock will lead a discussion on the introduction to the third book of The Star of Redemption (1921).

Venue: Skeppsholmen, Slupskjulsvägen 10 (Östersjöstiftelsen)

Benjamin Pollock is the Sol Rosenbloom Professor of Jewish Philosophy and the Director of the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He works especially in German-Jewish philosophy, with interests in post-Kantian metaphysics and skepticism, Bible translation and interpretation, political philosophy and theology, and the forms of philosophical writing. Benjamin Pollock is author of Franz Rosenzweig and the Systematic Task of Philosophy (2009) and World Denial and World Redemption: Franz Rosenzweig’s Conversions (2014). He is currently working on a project on the theology and poetics of the Buber-Rosenzweig Bible translation.