DANA HOLLANDER
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Ethics Out of Law: Hermann Cohen and the "Neighbor" (University of Toronto Press, 2021) Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) was a leading figure in the Neo-Kantian philosophical movement that dominated European thought before 1918. He was also an inaugural figure in modern Jewish philosophy. This book explores Cohen's striking claim that ethics is rooted in law - a claim developed in both his philosophical ethics and his philosophy of Judaism, in particular in his writings on "love-of-neighbor," up to and including his well-known Religion of Reason.
Reviews: Jeffrey Bernstein for H-Judaic | Shira Billet in AJS Review | Myriam Bienenstock in Revue philosophique | Michael Zank in Journal of Religion | Heinrich Assel in Verkündigung und Forschung
"Foregrounding the Political in the Thought of Cohen, Buber, and Levinas," Political Theology, vol. 24 (2023), no. 5. Contribution to "Round Robin Book Discussion on Jewish Political Theology," together with Samuel H. Brody and Annabel Herzog.
"'But Does He Really Not Remember?' Cohen's Revaluing of the Spinozan Politicization of Judaism" in G.W.F. Hegel und Hermann Cohen. Wege zur Versöhnung, ed. Norbert Waszek (Freiburg: Alber, 2018) - a Festschrift for Myriam Bienenstock
"Hermann Cohen über die Paradoxie des Gesetzes, aus den Quellen des Judentums und des Antijudaismus" ["Hermann Cohen on the Paradox of 'Gesetz' Out of the Sources of Judaism and Anti-Judaism"] in Ino Augsberg and Karl-Heinz Ladeur (eds.), Politische Theologie(n) der Demokratie. Das religiöse Erbe des Säkularen ["Political Theology/-ies of Democracy. The Religious Legacy of the Secular"] (Vienna: Turia & Kant, 2018).
"Understanding Law ('Gesetz' and 'Recht') in Hermann Cohen, with Help from the Early Strauss," in Idealistic Studies, vol. 44, no. 2/3 (Summer/Fall 2014, published June 2015): Special issue on "New Directions in the Thought of Leo Strauss," ed. Jeffrey Bernstein.
"Contested Forgiveness:
Jankélévitch,
Levinas,
and Derrida at the Colloque des intellectuels juifs" in Elisabeth
Weber
(ed.), Living Together: Jacques Derrida's
Communities of Violence and Peace (New York: Fordham
University Press, 2012)
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"The
Political Theology Syllabi Project: Dana Hollander," blog post on Political
Theology Today, April 24, 2014.
last updated October 2026