Gabriel Motzkin
Gabriel Gideon Hillel Motzkin (born December 28, 1945 in Jerusalem , League of Nations Mandate for Palestine ) is an American-Israeli historian.
Life
Gabriel Motzkin is a son of the mathematician Theodore Motzkin , who emigrated from Germany to Palestine in 1935 . In 1948 the family moved to the USA. Motzkin studied history, philosophy and German at Harvard University and Yale University from 1967 and received his doctorate in Berkeley in 1982 with a dissertation on Kant and Heidegger . He had fellowships at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Bielefeld, the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, the Siemens Stiftung , as well as at Clare Hall in Cambridge, at the Max Planck Institute for History , at the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and neurosciences , at the Einstein Forum and at the “Vienna Institute” of Tel Aviv University . He was visiting professor at the universities of Amsterdam, Konstanz, Paris and at the Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in New York.
From 1996 to 1999 and 2006 to 2007 he was director of the Franz Rosenzweig Center for German-Jewish Literary and Cultural History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . From 1997 he headed the sub-project “The Memory of Gnosis between Secularization and Resacralization” in the Collaborative Research Center 434 Cultures of Remembrance at the University of Giessen . In addition to teaching at the Ahad Ha'am Chair of Philosophy at the University of Jerusalem, he was director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute . At the university he was dean of the humanities faculty from 2001 to 2004.
His fields of work are the philosophy of history, secularization, memory research and the philosophy of Martin Heidegger .
Fonts (selection)
- The problem of transcendence in the secular world: from Kant to Heidegger . Dissertation University of California, Berkeley, 1982
- Time and transcendence: secular history, the Catholic reaction, and the rediscovery of the future . Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992
- with Joseph Mali (Ed.): Narrative patterns in scientific disciplines . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994
- A negative myth of origin , interview, from the English by Alma Lessing, in: David Bankier (Ed.): Questions about the Holocaust: Interviews with prominent researchers and thinkers . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2006, pp. 283–295 [1998]
- Helmuth Holzey, Gabriel Motzkin, Hartwig Wiedebach (eds.): Religion of reason from the sources of Judaism. Tradition and original thinking in Hermann Cohen's late work. , International Conference Zurich 1998. Hildesheim: Olms, 2000, ISBN 3-487-11140-3
- Jens Mattern, Gabriel Motzkin, Shimon Sandbank: Jewish thinking in a world without God. Festschrift for Stéphane Mosès . Berlin: Vorwerk 8, 2001 ISBN 978-3930916344
- with Helmut Dubiel : The Lesser Evil . New York 2002
- (Ed.): Religion and democracy in contemporary Europe . London: Alliance Publ. Trust, 2008
- with Yochi Fischer (Ed.): Religion and Democracy in Contemporary Europe . Giessen: VVB Laufersweiler Verlag, 2009
- with Andrzej Rychard (Ed.): The legacy of Polish solidarity: social activism, regime collapse, and the building of a new society . New York: Peter Lang, 2015
Web links
- Literature by and about Gabriel Motzkin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Gabriel Motzkin in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Short biography and reviews of works by Gabriel Motzkin at perlentaucher.de
- Adi Gordon, Amos Goldberg, Amos Morris-Reich: An Interview with Professor Gabriel Motzkin , at Yad Vashem January 7, 1998 (en)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gabriel Motzkin , at zfl Berlin, 2007
- ↑ a b c Gabriel Motzkin , at Van Leer
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Motzkin, Gabriel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Motzkin, Gabriel Gideon Hillel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-Israeli historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jerusalem |