Fellows 2020

Yossef Schwartz

Professor for medieval and early modern intellectual history, Tel Aviv University

Resident at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften:

February–March 2020

Research topic at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften:

»Found(ed) in Translation: The Multilingual and Interreligious Dimensions of Medieval Intellectualism«

Research partner:

Yossef Schwartz follows an invitation of Christian Wiese (Professor of Jewish Philosophy of Religion at Goethe University) and the University's research center »Religiöse Positionierung. Modalitäten und Konstellationen in jüdischen, christlichen und islamischen Kontexten« (»Religious Positioning: Modalities and Constellations in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Contexts«).

Scholarly profile of Yossef Schwartz

Yossef Schwartz is the head of the School of Philosophy, Linguistics and Science Studies at Tel Aviv University. He is Professor for medieval and early modern intellectual history at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, which he directed from 2009 until 2015. He held the Martin Buber Chair for Jewish philosophy of religion at the department of evangelical theology, Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main, 2000-2002. Further teaching/research positions at the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at UPenn, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and the Center for the History of Knowledge, Zurich. He also dedicated a series of studies to modern German-Jewish authors such as Salomon Maimon, Ernst Cassirer, Gustav Landauer, Gershom Scholem, Martin Buber, and Franz Rosenzweig, concentrating mainly on their historiographical concept of pre-modern culture and the process of secularization.

Website:
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Main areas of research:

Medieval intellectual history, especially Jewish and Christian; Medieval science (cosmology, psychology, medicine); Institutions of Knowledge, Scientific Translations, Circulation of Knowledge

Selected publications:

(with L. Salaymeh, G. Shahar) »Der Orient: Imaginationen in deutscher Sprache«, In: Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte, 45, Wallstein Verlag, 2017.
(with A. Fidora, H. Hames) »Latin-Into-Hebrew: Texts and Studies«, Volume 2: Texts in Contexts, Leiden: Brill, 2013.
(with V. Krech) »Religious Apologetics – Philosophical Argumentation«, In: Religion in Philosophy and Theology, Vol. 10, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck Verlag, 2004.
(with G. Palmer) "Innerlich bleibt die Welt eine" Ausgewählte Texte von Franz Rosenzweig über den Islam, Berlin: Philo Verlag, 2003.
To Thee is silence praise: Meister Eckhart’s reading in Maimonides. Guide of the Perplexed, Tel Aviv, 2002.