Lecture Series: “Contemporary Jewish Philosophers”
Led by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson (ASU)
About the series: This three-part series features three influential Jewish thinkers who wrestled with the deepest concerns of contemporary Jewish life after the Holocaust. Each of these thinkers is associated with a different way of being Jewish including Reform, Chabad and Modern Orthodoxy. Additionally, each thinker approached Jewishness from different intellectual lenses including Hegelianism, pastoral psychology and moral philosophy. These brilliant thinkers offer us ways of living a meaningful Jewish life by responding to the deepest challenges of our time. Cosponsored with VOSJCC.
About Hava Tirosh-Samuelson: Professor Hava Tirosh-Samuelson is Regents Professor of History, Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism, and former director of Jewish Studies at Arizona State University. Tirosh-Samuelson is a Jewish intellectual historian who focuses on the interplay of philosophy and mysticism, Judaism and science, and Judaism and ecology. In addition to over 50 essays and book chapters, she is the author of "Between Worlds: The Life and Work of Rabbi David ben Judah Messer Leon" (1991) which received the award of the Hebrew University for the best work in Jewish history for 1991, and the author of "Happiness in Premodern Judaism: Virtue, Knowledge and Well-Being in Premodern Judaism" (2003), and "Religion and Environment: The Case of Judaism" (2020).
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