The Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: Events
Thursday, 23 October 2025, 11:00
Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Am Wingertsberg 4, 61348 Bad Homburg
Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften of Goethe UniversityFKH colloquium
Elad Lapidot (Université de Lille)
»Emmanuel Levinas around 1968«Abstract
My talk reflects on the relations between post-Holocaust Jewish thought and decolonial thought through the work of French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. Recently thinkers criticized Levinas for his Eurocentrism. My talk argues that Levinas anticipated this critique and from the 1960s on sought to develop the foundations for decolonial Jewish thought – and for decolonial Zionism. To demonstrate this claim, my talk offers an innovative presentation of Levinas’s entire intellectual project as articulated around a fundamental turn between the period prior to 1968 and the post-68 period. The turn relates to Levinas’s understanding of the relationship between Judaism and Western civilization.
The speaker
Elad Lapidot is Professor for Jewish Studies at University of Lille. In October 2025, he is, on the invitation of professor Christian Wiese and the Frankfurt research focus »Dynamics of Religion« a fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Participation
Closed event. Contact: Beate Sutterlüty; email: b.sutterluety@forschungskolleg-humanwissenschaften.de
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